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Tag: Jim Crow

National / News

Jim Crow tactics reborn in Texas abortion law, deputizing citizens to enforce legally suspect provisions

September 13, 2021September 13, 2021 - by Stefanie Lindquist

This approach to enforcement is a legal end-run that privatizes a state’s enforcement of the law.

Jim Crow tactics reborn in Texas abortion law, deputizing citizens to enforce legally suspect provisions Read More
Featured / National / News

MLB pulls All-Star game from Atlanta due to GA’s voter restriction law

April 3, 2021April 3, 2021 - by MSR News Online

‘Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box…’

MLB pulls All-Star game from Atlanta due to GA’s voter restriction law Read More
Black History Month / Featured

The origin of a revolutionary idea: 40 acres and a mule

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 - by Mel Reeves

The original idea for redistributing 40 acres of formerly Confederate land to newly freed African slaves was the brainchild of a group of 20 Black preachers

The origin of a revolutionary idea: 40 acres and a mule Read More
Opinion

Our continuing terror: the murder of Ahmaud Arbery

May 23, 2020May 23, 2020 - by Jesse Jackson

For Blacks, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery it is another humiliation, a continuing terror.

Our continuing terror: the murder of Ahmaud Arbery Read More
slavery
Opinion

Even now the US’s slave past is difficult for some to accept

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 - by Trace L. Rogers

It’s been 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived on these shores, and that’s why we must talk about the history of race in America.

Even now the US’s slave past is difficult for some to accept Read More
National / News

Reparations are essential to eliminate the wealth gap between black and white Americans

September 27, 2019September 26, 2019 - by Christian Weller

This racial wealth gap is a result not only of the horrors of slavery but also policies – such as Jim Crow laws, redlining and modern-day mass incarceration – that followed.

Reparations are essential to eliminate the wealth gap between black and white Americans Read More
Opinion

From ā€˜40 acres and a mule’ to the 2020 election, a brief history of reparation promises

April 12, 2019April 20, 2019 - by John Torpey, City University of New York

Reparations has emerged as a hot topic among Democratic candidates hoping to replace Trump in 2020. But until now, the issue has only rarely received national attention.

From ā€˜40 acres and a mule’ to the 2020 election, a brief history of reparation promises Read More

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