Philadelphia native Edmond W. Davis is a historian, college professor and journalist. In this column he compares how ...

Will Black voters continue to have an opportunity to elect representatives of their choice, or will decades of hard-won ...

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 ...

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Fisher Frazell, Iola third and fourth-grade quarterback, breaks loose for a double-digit gain while facing the undefeated Prairie View Buffalos Saturday. Photo by Jimmy Potts The Iola Mustangs third ...

It wasn't just segregation. | Opinion "I Am Nobody's Slave" author Lee Hawkins makes a case for reparations for descendants of the enslaved and those who lived through the Jim Crow era. "I Am Nobody's ...

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 ...

Survivors of Jim Crow deserve reparations. It wasn't just segregation. | Opinion "I Am Nobody's Slave" author Lee Hawkins makes a case for reparations for descendants of the enslaved and those who ...