Jim Crow

“Little bitty pretty one, come on and talk to me” about that one time a vintage clip of Frankie Lymon performing…

Hopefully, the third time is the charm for a measure to remove racist language from Alabama’s state constitution.

The state of Mississippi is close to 40 percent Black, making it the state with the second-largest proportional…

One of the most tragic moments in Black American history happened in 1963 when a group of cowardly Ku Klux Klan…

Welcome to Lovecraft Country...or um, you know...welcome to America for Black folks.

When Andre Perry thinks about American policing and incarceration, he sees an economic issue as much as a human…

Voting laws in this country are generally crafted to favor white people at the expense of everyone else. Whether…

God doesn’t make mistakes, but people do. And sometimes those mistakes look like black aunties, who, in 2020 the…

Capitalism is an interesting thing.

Anyone who grew up in the pre-streaming age remembers those super-effective Disney commercials that would air with a…

For nearly 100 years, the Commonwealth of Virginia has required all couples seeking a marriage license to disclose…

Now, we’ve all heard the stereotype that black folks can’t swim. But, unfortunately, that cliché is based in…

It’s being called a modern-day poll tax, and for good reason.

In the new film Green Book, Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen play a black musical genius and the hard-nosed…

J. Kenneth Lee, one of four black students who joined a lawsuit that would ultimately lead to the desegregation of…

Respect your elders. I don’t know a child who wasn’t raised with that admonition, which in my household was often…

Hey, bruh, I’m back again for our weekly explainer. I thought we might talk about Black History Month this time.

Recy Taylor, whose story of sexual assault at the hands of six white men in 1944 is featured in the book At the Dark…

I wish that headline contained hyperbole. I wish it were made up. It is not. The man President Donald Trump has…

The trailer for Netflix’s Mudbound is here, and it’s more riveting and soul-stirring than all the critics claim. The…