Jim Crow

The statues of chained men, women and children stick hauntingly out of sand as simulated waves crash overhead, a symbol to the estimated two million people for whom the slave trade ended in a watery grave in the Atlantic Ocean.

The exhibit is part on an expanded museum created by the Equal Justice Initiative that focuses on the legacy of slavery in America.

Democrats have seized on new voting restrictions in Georgia to focus attention on the fight to overhaul federal election laws, setting up a slow-building standoff that carries echoes of the civil rights battles of a half-century ago.

The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery fought to end segregation, lived to see the election of the country's first black president and echoed the call for "justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream" in America.

By James George Jatras*

Every living nation needs symbols. They tell us who we are as one people, in what we believe, and on what basis we organize our common life.

Here’s the last paragraph of the Caucasian lady  — of German-Czech ancestry — that masqueraded as an admittedly light-skinned but very forceful African-American woman, and NAACP chapter head in Spokane, Wash. She resigned on Monday.