Reinventing slavery helped America recover from the long depression — William Spivey, Medium In the teaching of economics, to measure the effect of changes to the economy, you introduce one new factor and assume all other things stay the same. Multiple factors come into play in real life, and seemingly unrelated things cause ripples through […]
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There’s a Jim Crow Mentality on Social Media | Medium
When Black people get too uppity online, we’re told to STFU — Ron Dawson, Medium Yesterday, one of the many white “Christians” in the professional photography community—a man who is notorious for silencing black voices in the online communities he runs—said he would pay up to $3,000 to have me tear-gassed. Now, in total disclosure, […]
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Jim Crow Compounded the Grief of African American Mothers Whose Sons Were Killed in World War I | Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Books presents ‘We Return Fighting,’ a groundbreaking exploration of African American involvement in World War I
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Jim Crow’s Last Stand | The Atlantic
The legacy of Jim Crow continues to loom large in the United States. But nowhere is it arguably more evident than in Louisiana. In 1898, a constitutional convention successfully codified a slew of Jim Crow laws in a flagrant effort to disenfranchise black voters and otherwise infringe on their rights. “Our mission was to establish […]
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New Exhibit Tackles Jim Crow Repression and Resistance | Colorlines
Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow is the first of several upcoming New-York Historical Society exhibits dedicated to Black culture and history.
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EJI Announces Plans to Build a Museum and National Lynching Memorial
The Equal Justice Initiative plans to build a national memorial to victims of lynching and open a museum that explores African American history from enslavement to mass incarceration. Both the museum and memorial will open in Montgomery, Alabama, in 2017.
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