A long history of inequity led to the stark maternal healthcare disparities Black parents are facing but it doesn't have to remain this way.
From the end of Jim Crow to the rise of wealth-dominated national campaigns, the Court has battled over if democracy is an egalitarian collaboration to serve the good of all citizens, or a competitive .
Women having reproductive rights in some states but not others is a variation on the terrible old days of Jim Crow.
Oklahoma's first Legislature adjourned on May 30, 1908, after creating the state's first laws, including liquor prohibition, the Jim Crow law and one requiring 9-foot sheets in hotels.
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Charles Caldwell was never meant to have a voice.
Alabama, Communist Party members fought brutal repression to organize black and white workers in the Jim Crow South.
Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some felonies .
Black cowboys made up as much as a quarter of working ranch hands during late 19th century.
Black Mississippians’ right to vote has constantly been under threat.
Chicagoans can work together to lift up new arrivals, undocumented immigrants and descendants of slaves to address a multi-pronged crisis, say YMCA leaders.
Yet as 20th-century civil rights laws stripped away most voting restrictions .