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Lawyers successfully argued that a Jim Crow-era law banning felons from voting is cruel and unusual punishment
While felons in Mississipi are still unable to vote for life, voting rights could soon be restored …
Katie Hawkinson
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From separate hotels to cemeteries, striking historical photos show what segregation looked like in Jim Crow-era America
Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, segregation laws, also known as Jim Crow laws, were instate…
Brianna Holt
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AOC says the US is 'truly facing an environment of fascism' where voter intimidation 'brings us to Jim Crow'
"This type of intimidation at the polls brings us to Jim Crow," AOC said, calling on people to "str…
Katie Balevic
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Louisiana governor posthumously pardons Homer Plessy from infamous 'separate but equal' Supreme Court case
Plessy v Ferguson was a case argued in the US Supreme Court in 1896 which became the catalyst for a…
DeArbea Walker
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Louisiana board votes to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, namesake of the landmark 'separate but equal' ruling
Plessy pled guilty to violating the Louisiana Separate Car Act and was fined $25. He died in 1925 a…
John L. Dorman
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Crows and magpies are getting revenge on humans by using anti-bird spikes around their nests as weapons
Crows and magpies in Europe have figured out how to use human-made spikes to repel other birds from…
Marianne Guenot
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The Nazis studied US eugenics and Jim Crow laws as a model for their policies. When they were criticized, one historian says, 'they pointed to Mississippi.'
A historian said in the new Ken Burns PBS film that as the Nazis wrote the Nuremberg Laws they look…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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GOP Rep. Burgess Owens says it's 'an insult' to compare the new Georgia voting law to Jim Crow
"The soft bigotry of low expectations now projected on Black Americans ... is being done by the Dem…
John L. Dorman
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President Joe Biden said the Justice Department is looking into a new law in Georgia restricting access to voting, which he called an 'atrocity'
The sweeping new law in Georgia has been compared by Biden and others to the laws that enforced rac…
Tom Porter
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Sen. Ted Cruz says that Democratic voting proposals will constitute 'Jim Crow 2.0'
Cruz claims, without evidence, that automatic voter registration will result in thousands of undocu…
Grace Panetta
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s family calls on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to 'ensure that the Jim Crow filibuster does not stand in the way' of voting rights
In a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Sinema reaffirmed her support for the filibuster, posing a ro…
Connor Perrett
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America's first Black billionaire is calling for $14 trillion in reparations to compensate for slavery, Jim Crow, and '200 years of systemic racism'
Robert L. Johnson, who founded BET, suggested a total sum that could equate to more than $300,000 p…
Aleeya Mayo
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Biden calls Georgia's new voting law 'Jim Crow in the 21st century' and 'a blatant attack on the Constitution'
The Republican-backed law expands early voting for most counties, while requiring ID information to…
Grace Panetta
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Stacey Abrams slams proposed voting restrictions in Georgia as 'racist' and a 'redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie'
"It is a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie," Stacy Abrams said on CNN's "State of the Union" on S…
Taylor Ardrey
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Calls to boycott Coca-Cola after Biden called Georgia's planned voting restrictions 'Jim Crow in the 21st Century'
The pressure comes after the omnibus bill of voter restrictions put forward by Republican lawmakers…
Naina Bhardwaj
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Biden agrees with Obama that the Senate filibuster is a 'Jim Crow relic' and says it's being 'abused in a gigantic way'
President Biden inched closer to endorsing Democratic efforts to abolish the rule requiring 60 vote…
Eliza Relman
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GOP megadonor Harlan Crow isn't charging Clarence Thomas' mother rent. Zillow estimates suggest that would have saved her $155,000 since 2014.
Thomas' mother has lived rent-free at Crow's Savannah home for almost 10 years, although she is res…
Chris Panella
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Biden backs moving MLB All-Star game out of Georgia over new voting law, which he called 'Jim Crow on steroids'
"I would strongly support them doing that. People look to them. They're leaders," Biden told ESPN a…
John Haltiwanger
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'This is Jim Crow in new clothes': Sen. Raphael Warnock delivers a forceful defense of voting rights, excoriates GOP-led voting restrictions
Warnock's focus on voter suppression in his maiden Senate speech led to a standing ovation in the c…
John L. Dorman
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Obama calls the filibuster a 'Jim Crow relic' and says it should be abolished if necessary during his powerful eulogy for John Lewis
"If all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-g…