Jim Crow
What one man’s 45-year-old case tells us about the ‘Jim Crow Juries’ haunting Louisiana
September 12, 2025Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in the 1980s Louisiana, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life, despite two Black jurors voting not guilty.
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Trump slashes home health workers’ pay and neuters discrimination protections
September 4, 2025The rollback would upend 60 years of fighting Jim Crow segregation against Black and other workers of color says National Nurses United.
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Saving democracy requires more of Netflix’s ‘Sunday Best’
July 25, 2025Documentary shows how Ed Sullivan helped a nation see the wealth of talent and ability in the Black community.
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1951: Truman launches propaganda campaign to distract from ‘We Charge Genocide’ petition
December 18, 2024As William L. Patterson and Paul Robeson were about to expose the crimes of the U.S. government against Black Americans, the Truman administration lied, telling the world that Black life was great in America.
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Separate is never equal: The Daily Worker’s 1954 Brown v. Board coverage
May 17, 2024Even on the day of the decision, racist reaction was already rearing its head across the segregated South.
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