Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, made it perfectly legal to discriminate against a person based on the color of their skin. Into the 1960s, a Black or Latino ...

With her nonfiction debut, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers comfortably inhabits this mythic juncture, telling the stories of Black ...

President Donald Trump activated 4,000 National Guard troops on June 10, 2025, to quell protests in Los Angeles over ...

Black restaurants remind us that nourishment can be an act of resistance, a celebration of identity, and a powerful place to ...

Historians, academics, economists and researchers agree the economy many Americans enjoy today was set up on a foundation of hundreds of years of free labor.

Well-meaning reforms have been built atop this structure. The ACA, passed in 2010, expanded access to health insurance but ...

Black disenfranchisement effectively created a one-party system in the South that gave seniority to Jim Crow lawmakers in ... At the time, they were called Black Codes; now they are simply our ...

U.S. healthcare is rife with high costs and deep inequities, and that’s no accident – a public health historian explains how ...

Chalk up another cherished American symbol that has quietly vanished under Donald Trump’s watch. A bust of Dr. Martin Luther ...

Structural Racism In Early US Health Care Policy. Since the Jim Crow era (1875–1968), racism has implicitly and explicitly been an integral part of the US government’s structuring and ...

Versions of Monopoly had existed for years before Parker Brothers acquired the game from Darrow. The game features forty ...

Originally considered for lease, the American Legion Post 188 Hall property in Delray Beach will now return to Post 188 ownership.