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The Pee Dee Rosenwald School, Marion County, South Carolina, c. 1935. (Public Domain image from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History via JTA)
April 17, 2026, 4:19 pm
With DEI out of favor, some push to honor Jewish philanthropist behind 5,000 Black schools
Lawmakers, archivists and activists seek recognition for Julius Rosenwald, the Sears exec who partnered with Booker T. Washington to fund education across the Jim Crow South in 1917-1932
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates is seen onstage at a conference on June 7, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images/via JTA)
October 9, 2024, 8:40 pm
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book draws on Jim Crow-era US to weigh in on Israel-Palestine
Altercation with CBS host while promoting book sparks controversy at the network; the author rejects claims of bias, saying ‘no shortage’ of pro-Israel voices in US
By JTA, AP and ToI Staff
Photographer Andrew Feiler at the Carver School in Coffee County, Georgia, working on his project documenting the sites of former Rosenwald schools. (Jim Cottingham/ via JTA)
April 29, 2021, 4:01 am
Jewish photographer makes it his mission to preserve legacy of Rosenwald schools
Andrew Feiler’s book ‘A Better Life for Their Children’ captures the institutions funded by a German-Jewish philanthropist for Black students — which started change in the US
By Dave Schechter
Bernard S. Cohen (Screengrab: Youtube)
October 15, 2020, 9:04 am
Bernard Cohen, who brought Loving v. Virginia to the Supreme Court, dies at 86
Son of Jewish-immigrant parents, Cohen volunteered with the ACLU, eventually winning landmark case overturning anti-miscegenation laws
By Ron Kampeas
The names of lynching victims are inscribed on weathering steel columns that hang from the ceiling at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, seen on April 20, 2018. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images/via JTA)
April 28, 2018, 7:52 am
What a new tribute to black lynching victims learned from Holocaust memorials
Nearly 4,400 people were murdered in lynchings from 1877 to 1950, according to the Equal Justice Initiative which initiated the newly opened National Memorial for Peace and Justice
By Ben Sales
During the 1930s in Yaphank, New York, members of the Nazi party march through the Long Island town, where they also organized a pro-Hitler summer camp (Public domain)
August 13, 2017, 11:29 am
American laws against ‘coloreds’ influenced Nazi racial planners
With neo-Nazis and white supremacists violently protesting in Charlottesville, Virginia, echoes of the country’s awkward history of ties to Nazism
By Matt Lebovic
Jackie Robinson in 1950. (Public domain)
June 13, 2017, 3:31 am
How (some) Jews across the US rooted for baseball’s first black player
70 years after Jackie Robinson hit the field, new books and exhibits show how the sport’s Jewish fans and players shared his pain
By Rich Tenorio
Screenshot from 'Two Trains Runnin'.' The three Jewish boys from New York City had no idea what they were in for. (Courtesy Avalon Films)
December 1, 2016, 2:31 pm
How ‘three Jews in a Volkswagon’ braved the KKK to find a lost Mississippi blues legend
Director Sam Pollard’s ‘Two Trains Runnin’ follows white college students from the North as they hunt for art and equality during the violent Freedom Summer of 1964
By Jordan Hoffman
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