William Sturkey

‘On the Books’: Machine Learning Jim Crow

In 1950, the scholar-activist Pauli Murray published an important book titled States’ Laws on Race and Color. Sponsored by the Women’s

Although Medgar Evers is one of the most widely recognized figures of the Civil Rights Movement, many people do not

*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This

Modern debates over Confederate monuments are not merely concerned with culture, historical memory, or racism. For many monument defenders, there

You might be asking: “Was there a Civil Rights Act of 1960?” Yes indeed there was. And it was quite