Crown was a giant in the American business, the charity, and civic spheres whose life ended abruptly and tragically on his 70 ...

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service's oldest ranger, died Sunday. As a ranger, she shed light on the painful reality ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego. It's Jade Hindman on today's show , What American history can tell us about fascism as concerns rise over losing democracy. This is KPBS Midday Edition. Connecting our ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In the early months of 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases that might not initially appear to share anything in common. In Tyson and Brother v. Banton, the Supreme Court struck down a New ...

'Project 2025 is Jim Crow 2.0.' Legendary South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn, the state’s only Democratic lawmaker, is speaking out on the state of politics under the Trump administration, ...

I grew up in Louisiana during the Jim Crow era. After the Civil War, Black people began to gain power during Reconstruction. White Southern Democrats did not like this and began passing what was known ...

Lee Hawkins's book argues for expanding the reparations debate to include survivors of the Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow era subjected Black people to racial segregation, violence, and systemic ...

Editor's note: As of Oct. 24, Michelle Alexander's Nov. 5 talk has been canceled. Best-selling author and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander will speak at CU Boulder at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sign calling for the return of racial segregation laws was spotted over — and quickly removed from — Interstate 25 in Denver on Sunday. Denver officers ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A sign that said “Bring back Jim Crow” was briefly displayed over Interstate 25 in Denver on Sunday morning, and one resident who saw it was left in shock. It happened on the ...

November 1939: The Rex Theatre in Leland, Mississippi, which was segregated under the Jim Crow laws. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 21 taking aim at diversity, equity, and ...