Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...

Her 2010 book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, is, as Cornel West put it, “the secular bible for a new social movement in early twenty-first-century America.” ...

The Trump administration has dismissed public pleas for mercy for transgender youth and instead launched a full-scale attack ...

Senator Rand Paul has called mass incarceration “the new Jim Crow.” And Carly Fiorina suggested during the last debate that “we have the highest incarceration rates in the world. Two-thirds ...

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 ...

During Galveston's Jim Crow era, Black islanders who fancied a dip in the Gulf of Mexico were limited to a narrow strip of beach between 27th and 28th streets or an area west of town known as ...

According to Michelle Alexander in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, “We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” ...

A new organization, Validus Movement, has emerged in Indianapolis to empower individuals reentering society after ...