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Jim Crow
Jim Crow news and analysis from The Nation
September 23, 2022
David Leonhardt’s Centrist Nostalgia Won’t Save Democracy
Jim Crow wasn’t an exception—but a model for the future.
Jeet Heer
May 3, 2022
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy
The enduring legacy and capacious vision of
Black Reconstruction
.
Gerald Horne
June 8, 2021
Joe Manchin Cares More About ‘Bipartisanship’ Than Fighting Jim Crow
The senator says he won’t back a crucial voting rights bill because it’s too “partisan.” What he means is that white conservatives don’t like it.
Elie Mystal
February 17, 2021
We Need a Racial Reckoning to Save Democracy
We must undergo a truth and reconciliation process in order to establish a new civic consensus.
Megan Ming Francis
and
Deepak Bhargava
December 2, 2020
This Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the New Deal Legal Order
In
Cedar Point Nursery
, conservatives are invoking a Jim Crow version of property rights.
Nathan Newman
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July 19, 2020
How We Remember a Prophet
Republicans who refuse to restore the Voting Rights Act while decorating the grave of Representative John Lewis with flowery words testify against themselves.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
March 23, 2020
Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make Reparations for Slavery
But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.
Kali Holloway
May 14, 2019
A New Poll Tax Will Suppress Florida’s Voting Reform
Republicans in Tallahassee are determined to thwart the will of the people.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
February 20, 2019
White People Can’t Quit Blackface
And it’s not because they think it’s funny.
Patricia J. Williams
June 7, 2018
James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, and the Politics of Southern Multiculturalism
The search for cultural diversity and social equality.
Robert Greene II
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