What has most people scratching their heads is the black crow that appears to hover over Depp's head, and the black stripes that run vertically down his painted face.
Black Codes and Jim Crow laws once disarmed and disenfranchised people on the basis of race.
Few nations have made the journey the U.S. has, moving from black slavery to a black president, from Jim Crow to equality before the law, and from widespread social acceptance of racism to near universal condemnation.
Talking to her, it was easy to imagine that the place would not have looked so different when it was one of the few inns open to blues musicians (or anybody else who was black) during the Jim Crow era.
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Sonny Black Eagle adopted me into the Crow Nation during my 2008 campaign.
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The latest Disney version has a shirtless Johnny Depp adorned with feathers, a face painted white with black stripes, and a stuffed crow on his head.
Black teenage unemployment was at a Jim Crow level 46.5%.
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Among the nearby statuary stands a life-size likeness of Benjamin R. (Pitchfork Ben) Tillman, the four-term United States senator who led the movement that disenfranchised black voters in 1895 and instituted Jim Crow.
Derrick Simmons, his grandmother's tales of life as a black woman in the Delta region under Jim Crow are indelibly etched in his political consciousness.
We cannot effectively discuss the issue of sexual assault in Black communities without acknowledging the direct war that was waged against Black women through rape during slavery and the Jim Crow era.
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Those who feared the black vote from the very beginning -- those architects of Jim Crow -- understood that it could give birth to transcending possibilities that were once unimaginable, such as the electing of a black guy with a name like Obama as president.
For some black women, a white husband brings bad memories of slavery and Jim Crow.
There were no doubt plenty of white people who do not dislike black people in their hearts at all but were perfectly willing to support and defend Jim Crow laws and practices.
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