Jim Crow
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Miles Davis, Brown Liquor and a Night I Didn't Want to End
For the 'A Song For My Father' Father's Day Series, Law Ware discusses his father through the Miles Davis Quintet's 'It Never Entered My Mind.'
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Virginia Seminary Built on Free Black Labor to Pay Reparations to Descendants of Workers
The subject of reparations is a prickly one because acknowledging America’s horrific past is something white America just doesn’t seem to have the fortitude to do. A seminary in Virginia has taken the steps to acknowledge the role slavery and Jim Crow laws played in its founding and has begun cash payments to the descendants…
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Texas Democrats Block Republican Voter Suppression Bill by Walking TF Off the House Floor
On Sunday, The Root reported that the GOPropagandist-controlled Texas Senate approved what is very clearly a voter suppression bill that was negotiated behind closed doors, pushed “earlier than usual” and one that arbitrarily makes it more difficult to vote. Well, on Sunday night, state Senate Democrats banded together to show that they are having none…