NAACP report: Are voter IDs the new Jim Crow?
theGRIO REPORT - A new NAACP report on the suppression of the black vote refers to recent right-wing political tactics as the new Jim Crow...
'Uppity' slur still haunts African-Americans
OPINION - In 1933, the word 'uppity' meant nothing short of a death sentence for African-Americans living in the South, and my grandfather had been publicly marked for death...
Has the South re-segregated politically?
OPINION - With their lockstep support for the Democratic Party in the South, African-Americans are seemingly returning to the old Jim Crow days of political powerlessness...
Jim Crow? 5 million people could lose vote in 2012 NYU study says
A new study from the New York University Law School's Brennan Center shows that 5 million people could lose the their right to vote as a result of new voter suppression laws...
Youngest person executed in the twentieth century in the U.S. was just 14
ALCOLU, SC -- On June 16th, 1944, the United States put to rest the youngest person ever to be subjected to the death penalty...
Dems, GOP cite '65 voting law in remapping debates
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Voting Rights Act became law to end Jim Crow suppression of black voters, but today, the 46-year-old law has become a tactical arguing point in redistricting debates throughout the South...
Are new voter ID laws Jim Crow by another name?
OPINION - As a civil rights lawyer who works in the trenches, I am well aware of the barriers that black voters face and particularly sensitive to the burdens that these new laws present...
B-side of civil rights movement reaches new audience
theGRIO REPORT - Though gospel artists mainly are known for their sacred songs of comfort and consolation, they also sang protests that played a role in Jim Crow's undoing...
University of Vermont study examines biracial identity
Racial "passing" still takes place today, University of Vermont sociologist Nikki Khanna reports in a new study, but in different ways...
Black Harvard doctor pens memoir of Jim Crow South
BOSTON (AP) - The book covers his life as the first African-American to graduate from Stanford Medical School and becoming the first black department head at Harvard's teaching hospitals...
