Lee Hawkins’ book shows exploring the connections between the past and present helps us understand the forces shaping our ...

Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow ...

I thought Jim Crow was dead, but it seems to be making a comeback through policies designed to roll back progress.

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 ...