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‘We will not go back to Jim Crow’: thousand of Mississippians rally for voting rights ⊕
Demonstration, held at historic location where the ‘Mississippi Plan’ was enacted, comes as southern states race to dilute Black voting power
Thousands of Mississippians, along with allies from other …
70 days ago
‘Jim Crow 2.0’: South Carolina’s Republicans move to oust state’s only Black congressman since 1897 ⊕
James Clyburn could now find his district dismantled after supreme court effectively gutted Voting Rights Act
South Carolina has had exactly one Black representative in Congress since 1897: James Clyb…
72 days ago
Backtalker by Kimberlé Crenshaw review – the audacity of hope ⊕⊕
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The inspiring life of the Black American activist and legal scholar who changed the way the world things about race
Kimberlé Crenshaw’s memoir describes a life shadowed by Jim Crow segregation and ra…
81 days ago
Mississippi house to hold redistricting session at site of Jim Crow era capitol ○
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Lawmakers to convene for special session to redraw state supreme court districts at building with racist history
When Mississippi lawmakers met in 1861 and voted to secede from the union in an effort …
The Guardian view on the US supreme court: its judgments have slowly erased voting rights | Editorial ⊕
A landmark ruling set back the right Congress granted – of racial equality in electoral opportunity – to keep Republicans in power
In the late 19th century, after Reconstruction, US federal protection…
87 days ago
‘You are the machine that kills hate’: Woody Guthrie’s protest anthems strike a chord with a new generation ⊖
A timely exhibit at NYU celebrates the anti-fascist folk artist – despite the university’s recent suppression of campus protests
Bea Esteves Mendez knew as much about Woody Guthrie as most people her …
3 months ago
We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Our Legacies of Enslavement team has found humanity and dignity, not blame or guilt, are at the heart of the conversation
Guardian owner heralds next phase in Legacies of Enslavement restorative justi…
Segregation stories: Gordon Parks in the US south – in pictures ⊕
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The great photographer documented black family life in postwar Alabama – and the dignity and resilience people showed under discriminatory Jim Crow laws
Continue reading...As a supreme court ruling looms, the US is dismantling Black voting power | Carol Anderson ⊕⊕
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Louisiana v Callais could be the latest brick in a wall under construction for more than a decade, as Jim Crow is rebuilt in modern form
There are moments in American history when the stakes are unmis…