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Highwaymen Museum: See latest update when Florida Highwaymen museum opens in Fort Pierce

TCPalm 07 Apr 2025
The City of Fort Pierce Highwaymen Museum in the historic Lincoln Park neighborhood will feature art exhibitions and public programs highlighting challenges faced by the Black artists during the Jim Crow and Civil Rights era.
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Why we’re still not equal

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder 07 Apr 2025
Black Americans have endured centuries of systemic injustice, ...
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The Party of Hate

Hot Air 06 Apr 2025
"The fact that (you're) sitting around talking about life was better under Jim Crow, like, is this because you don't understand history or literally it's because you married a white woman? And so you think that that whitewashed you?".
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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad

The Washington Post 06 Apr 2025
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow ... .
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Donald Trump Needs Everyone To Love Him

WhoWhatWhy 06 Apr 2025
President Donald Trump believes he is a genius who knows more about economics than did John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman ... Only a small minority of Republicans really want to return to Jim Crow.
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From the Archives: Wintering and living in Fort Myers a century ago

News-Press - Fort Myers 06 Apr 2025
During the early 1900s, many Black residents lived in the Dunbar community, also known as Safety Hill, where they built schools, businesses, churches and a hospital, showing remarkable resilience in the face of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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Several legislative priorities died this year in exchange for tax cuts, retirement reforms

Hattiesburg American 06 Apr 2025
House Bill 1 signed into law. Gov. Tate Reeves signs House Bill 1 onto law, eliminating the state income tax ... "There are things that matter to people, but it's not a lot of people's No ... Disenfranchisement has its roots deep in the soil of Jim Crow South.
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Exit stage right: Trump blows up the West as we know it as America's allies flinch

RNZ 06 Apr 2025
By Nick Bryant, ABC. Analysis - The promise in Donald Trump's inaugural address was bright shining ... independence ... The prevalence of slavery and, after its abolition, the brutal apartheid of Jim Crow, made the United States more a pariah than a paragon.
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Armstrong Williams: Contending with our country’s racist past | STAFF COMMENTARY

Baltimore Sun 05 Apr 2025
It is a worthy endeavor to uncover past complicity in slavery, Jim Crow and white supremacy.
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Disney faces FCC investigation over discriminatory diversity initiatives

The Cincinnati Herald 05 Apr 2025
“While I have seen reports that Disney recently walked back some of its DEI programs, significant concerns remain,” Carr wrote ... history and drive the country back beyond the Jim Crow era ... .
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Elwood Watson: The larger hypocrisy of the Signal chat leak

Daily Freeman 05 Apr 2025
It’s difficult to decide what the most disturbing aspect of the entire scandal was ... Irrefutably stupid ... “Make America Great Again” was always about returning to a Jim Crow era to make the nation “great” for an elite segment of white folks ... ....
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There’s Nothing Conservative About Trump 2.0

New York Magazine 05 Apr 2025
The effort to purge DEI policies and programs from both the public and private sectors represent a conscious reversal of the civil-rights movement’s premise that the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow ...
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Major League Baseball Celebrates ‘Jackie Robinson Day’ April 15, Broke Colorline in 1947

Space Coast Daily 05 Apr 2025
Slowly, through the vehicle of baseball, courageous men like Jackie Robinson, Lary Doby, Hank Thompson, Sam Jethroe, Monte Irvin, Ernie Banks and Gene Baker, just to name a few, shattered Jim Crow restrictions and met the backlash against Brown v.
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'Back to Jim Crow 101': Democrats from Guilford County attack anti-DEI bills at town hall

News & Record 04 Apr 2025
Kay Brown, a mother of two young children, called anti-DEI efforts “affirmative action for white men who are fragile,” a remark which prompted applause from the audience ... .
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