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Charles Caldwell was never meant to have a voice. Mississippi’s White ruling class made sure of it. He was part of Mississippi’s silenced majority in 1860 — 436,600 enslaved people to 354,000 White people, according to the Census — who would be granted full citizenship after the Civil War. By 1868, Caldwell was one of […]
Georgia primary today shines a light on Draconian measures to ensure Republican victories at the ballot box. In the days and months leading up to today’s presidential primary in Georgia, activists have been on the ground in African American neighborhoods across the state working to prevent a rollback of voter rights that they say harkens […]
The author Tananarive Due wrote a haunted, terrifying horror novel where the people are much scarier than the ghosts. Her book, The Reformatory, is historical fiction about the infamous Dozier School for Boys in North Florida. Real boys were sent there to the brutal work camp and prison that was disguised as a reform school. […]
Born as Sarah Loguen in 1850, Sarah Loguen Fraser found her calling as a child when she helped her parents and Harriet Tubman bandage the leg of an injured person escaping slavery. When the Civil War ended, and Reconstruction opened up opportunities for African Americans, Loguen Fraser became one of the first Black women to […]
Lt. Frank J. Crawford of Detroit, Michigan, as the Regimental plans and training officer, is giving his men instructions in combat maneuvers. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Lt. Frank J. Crawford of Detroit, Michigan, as the Regimental plans and training officer, is giving his men instructions in combat maneuvers. Bettmann […]
In 2014, one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies purchased a string of properties on a quiet residential street in Savannah, Georgia. It wasn’t a marquee acquisition for the real estate magnate, just an old single-story home and two vacant lots down the road. What made it noteworthy were the people on the other side […]
Jackson, Mississippi’s Black community is outraged that state lawmakers are moving closer to establishing a separate justice system in Jackson for whites and African Americans. According to Mississippi Today, the proposed new law would let the state’s white chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, its white attorney general, and its white state public safety […]
96 percent of black Georgia voters said voting experience in 2022 was ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ More than 96 percent of black voters in Georgia—a state that Democrats claimed was enforcing “Jim Crow 2.0″— said their voting experience in 2022 was “good” or “excellent,” according to a new poll. More than 91 percent of black voters […]
In 1937, as a correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American covering the Spanish Civil War and the rise of fascism in Europe, the poet Langston Hughes made an astute observation. Fascism, Hughes concluded, was essentially Jim Crow with a foreign accent. “We Negroes in America do not have to be told what Fascism is in action,”
Democrats Stacey Abrams: ‘We know that increased turnout has nothing to do with suppression’ Andrew Stiles • October 18, 2022 4:35 pm More than 131,000 Georgia residents cast their ballots on Monday, the first day of early voting in the state, marking the highest first-day total for a . . .