CROWNSVILLE, Md. — “I get teary-eyed every time they do this,” Janice Hayes-Williams, an Annapolis historian, said. On a bright, cold morning in January, cadaver dogs, specially trained to ...
In 1942, that group established Taborian Hospital, a place staffed by Black doctors and nurses that exclusively admitted Black patients when Jim Crow laws barred them from accessing the same ...
Historian and Richmond native Selden Richardson, who spearheaded the preservation of the Leigh Street Armory now home to the ...
Mound Bayou became a haven for thousands of Black Americans during Jim Crow. Within the community ... a bank, and a hospital. A town of this magnitude was unheard of at the time, and the economic ...
Trump's threat to imprison those he deems "cheaters" should be disqualifying for the presidency and are voter suppression of ...
The hospital, once Maryland’s only mental asylum ... Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum.” A series of articles by the Evening Sun in 1949 called Crownsville “Maryland’s Shame.” ...
Julius Rosenwald understood that charity is not just about giving, but about fixing the inequalities that make giving ...
“When we say that America has a history of systemic racism, we mean that from slavery, Jim Crow laws, lynchings, and policing, our institutions have done violence to black Americans ...
Wade Hampton, almost immediately began implementing segregationist policies that came to be known as Jim Crow. And by 1900, most of the Black people in the South had been disenfranchised and the ...
Kamala Harris Spits Up Word Salad All Over Her Lapels Law Profs Who Can’t Cope with Decisions They Dislike What’s Trump’s Case against Harris? Psst! There Are a Handful of New Polls in ...
As Santa Clara County moves forward with the purchase of Regional Medical Center, East San Jose advocates are calling on the hospital's ownership to provide a community reparations package as part of ...
Over the last week, Mississippi and Florida have offered modern-day examples of Jim Crow-era voter suppression that endures to this day — enacted by state legislatures, enabled by governors with ...