The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...

Yes, EO 11246 was amended in 2014 by President Barack Obama to add sexual orientation and gender identity to prohibited ...

Otherwise, we simply have Jim Crow laws of a new color. The states must also provide an appeals process for immediate resolution when documents are deemed unacceptable. Preventing citizens from ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of ...

Charles Person, who has died aged 82, was the youngest of the civil rights activists – seven black and six white Americans – who in 1961 braved hostile US sheriffs and howling Ku Klux Klan-inspired ...

Many of these ballots were cast without proper verification or monitoring. Biden called the 2021 law Jim Crow 2.0 and said, The goal of the former president and his ...

Democrats such as former Georgia lawmaker Stacey Abrams, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Biden who had become president, called the laws “Jim Crow 2.0.” Biden specifically called a 2021 ...

just after the first Jim Crow laws went into effect in 1865. Duncan went onto say that the whole theory behind the specified crimes — that Blacks commit “furtive” crimes, while the crimes of whites ...

Many supporters of their removal argue that the vast majority were built during the era of Jim Crow laws,... After Jessica Anne Krug posted an apologia for passing as Black, the public furor was ...