Tag: Jim Crow

McConnell defends racist GOP voting restrictions, tells business to butt out

April 6, 2021

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says it’s a “big lie” to call the new voting law in Georgia racist and he warned big business to

A regrettable memory from an unsavory past

March 28, 2021

Too often, I come across another illegal stunt by one of the GOP activists I worked with in Washington — an added black mark on my questionable record as a political operative

Did sex, racism drive black woman to kill white doctor?

January 1, 2015

On a sticky hot Sunday in August 1952, a wealthy black woman named Ruby McCollum walked through the “colored entrance” of a doctor’s office in