The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in ...
“Berta, Berta,” a two-character play by Angelica Chéri, was inspired by a prison work song from Parchman Farm, the notorious Mississippi State Penitentiary whose harsh conditions and history of forced ...
Beginning with the African proverb “when an elder dies, a library burns,” debut author Avery interviews 10 Black elders from various locations in the American South to develop this powerful collection ...