Jim Crow

In 1918 and 2020, race colors America’s response to epidemics

A look at how Jim Crow affected the treatment of African Americans fighting the Spanish flu

Black History Month poetic tribute: Jackie Robinson

He thrived while enduring hate and vitriol

Jackie Robinson was asked to denounce Paul Robeson. Instead, he went after Jim Crow.

His testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee was a turning point for the baseball hero

‘Separate and Equal,’ a new play about race and basketball in Jim Crow Alabama, trips over its subject matter

Birmingham Civil Rights Museum and University of Alabama jointly produced the play

Oscar-nominated film about Emmett Till contemplates how racial terror affects those left behind

Kevin Wilson Jr., the director of ‘My Nephew Emmett,’ is still in film school

Recy Taylor, subject of new documentary about the rape of black women during Jim Crow, has died

97-year-old was at a nursing home in the same Alabama town where she had been attacked

‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ explores the little-known terror campaign against black women

Just as black men were lynched, black women faced systemic sexual violence under Jim Crow