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The entrance of Angola Prison, Louisiana. The Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South" and "The Farm" is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

Louisiana's Jim Crow juries still linger

Richard A. Webster - ProPublica
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth meets with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) at the U.S. Capitol on December 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Paranoid Hegseth bans the Enola Gay

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and faith leaders say a prayer during the signing of a proclamation in the Oval Office of the White House September 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

A return to the racial caste system

Dr. Alvin B. Tillery
Stephen Miller and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Miller makes clear Trump's DEI subtext

Shari Dunn
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Climate protesters interrupt former US president and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump as he speaks at a "commit to caucus rally" in Indianola, Iowa, on January 14, 2024. (CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

How the resistance can stay persistent

Chauncey DeVega
District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, Fani Willis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why this is happening in Atlanta

Christopher Sellers
Israel Page and Margaret (Warren) Page, Sharon Tubbs's maternal grandparents, and the house in Uniontown, Alabama, where the Tubbs family traveled from Fort Wayne, Indiana, each summer to visit grandparents. (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of author/Getty Images)

Threats of racial terror follow us today

Sharon Tubbs
Voters cast ballots during the early voting period at C.T. Martin Natatorium and Recreation Center on October 18, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

Brennan expert on America's big decision

Chauncey DeVega
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Freedom school teacher Liz Fusco with students- Ruleville, Mississippi. 1964 (Tracy Sugarman/Jackson State University via Getty Images)

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

Robert S. McElvaine
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves speaks on Covid-19 testing in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on September 28, 2020. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

GOP governor vetoes bill to end Jim Crow

Jon Skolnik
People stand in line to testify before the House Select Committee on Constitutional Rights and Remedies, which began hearings on bail reform and election integrity bills, at the Texas State Capitol on July 10, 2021 in Austin, Texas. Lawmakers are using a special session of the 87th Legislature to work through a list of priorities set by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott which include overhauling the state voting laws, bail reform, border security, social media censorship, and critical race theory. (Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images)

Texas voting law hits Black voters hard

Igor Derysh
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

AOC: Democracy in U.S. could end

Alex Henderson - Alternet
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Martin Luther King Jr. | Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The right's fake MLK: Hollower than ever

Chauncey DeVega
People talk before the start of a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. | Mrs. Lee Hooks and other white housewives demonstrate against planned desegregation at William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Right's CRT panic is nothing new

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans still love Jim Crow

Chauncey DeVega
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool/Getty Images)

Texas abortion law deputizes citizens

Stefanie Lindquist - The Conversation
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People gather around the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, on June 4, 2020, amid continued protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody. (Ryan M. Kelly/AFP via Getty Images)

Robert E. Lee and the Trumpers

Chauncey DeVega
A protester in a Guy Fawkes mask stands in front of the Oregon State Capitol building during a Stop the Steal rally in Salem, Oregon. Angry supporters of President Trump took to the streets across the country following reporting that President-elect Joe Biden had won the election. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Birth of a Republican nation

Chauncey DeVega
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images)

Texas GOP wants to ban MLK Jr. in school

Jon Skolnik
American Voting Suppression (Getty Images)

Republicans' new target: History

Chauncey DeVega
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Students line a busy intersection and overpass protesting against a Jefferson County School Board proposal to emphasize patriotism and downplay civil unrest in the teaching of U.S. history, in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo., Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. Several hundred students walked out of class Thursday in the fourth straight day of protests in Jefferson County. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (AP)

"CRT" hysteria is the perfect GOP troll

Amanda Marcotte
Tucker Carlson complains about vaccine passports (FOX News)

"Medical Jim Crow has come to America"

Jon Skolnik
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) asks questions during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on December 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

Rand claims voting bills can't be racist

David Edwards - Raw Story
A Mississippi Civil Rights Museum mural of Freedom Riders who were arrested (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

11 facts about the Freedom Riders

Mark Mancini - Mental Floss
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