Michelle Alexander, a civil rights activist and the author of “The New Jim Crow,” will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 at the University Memorial Center’s Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University of Colorado ...

"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.

Lee Hawkins’ book shows exploring the connections between the past and present helps us understand the forces shaping our lives, and to find healing.

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) compared President Trump’s police takeover in Washington, D.C., to the post-Reconstruction era in the United States when racial segregation was codified into law and upheld ...

DULUTH — Lee Hawkins knows Duluth better than he knows the place he was born. In fairness, he only lived in his birthplace for three months. "I was born in Minot, North Dakota, on the Air Force base ...

For the past decade, wave upon wave of protests against police violence and mass incarceration have drawn the public’s attention toward the continued significance of America’s color line, the set of ...

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 ...

The Trump administration is attempting to erase Black history and replace it with a sanitized version, leading to a two-tier education system and the degradation of artifacts of Black culture, in a ...

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.

Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum', which sheds light onto generations of Black Americans who have struggled to get access to mental healthcare in the post-slavery era. Hylton explains how we're ...