PEKIN – For years, some Illinois towns had the reputation of being a "sundown town," a city where it wasn't safe for Black people to be after dark. While that's largely gone by the wayside, the ...

Social media users revived a stark reminder of America's history of racism with an image of a sundown town sign. A May 2 Facebook post shows a sign in Mississippi saying a town is "whites only within ...

In my recent article about sundown towns (Monitor Opinion, July 31), I made an effort to define them. I stated such towns were jurisdictions that for decades kept African Americans out so they could ...

All told, Loewen says, he found evidence of more than 150 sundown signs in 31 states. But he wasn't researching the sundown signs. They were just symbols. He was researching sundown towns, which he ...

The Green Book movie depicts a real-life concert tour by black jazz musician Don Shirley and his trio through the South in 1962, for which Shirley hired Italian-American Nick Vallelonga to be his ...