Justice

Martin Scorsese's new film revisits the murders of wealthy Osages in Oklahoma in the 1920s

A new biography examines the life of the abolitionist, newspaper editor, activist, and globetrotter.

Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement.

Despite depictions of the Underground Railroad, escaping over land was almost impossible in the South. Thousands of enslaved people found allies on the water.

The abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.

It is time to recognize the power that organized labor can wield to fight for environmental, economic and social justice.

On Oct. 11, 1988, at the height of the AIDS crisis and a wave of homophobia, people were asked to take a daring step by declaring publicly that they were gay.

How can we most efficiently defend the imperiled academy?

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Siege of Wounded Knee, the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists.

Sylvia Mendez’s role in setting the stage for Brown v. Board of Education has been forgotten and overlooked.

In the past and present, librarians have fought book bans and censorship.

This is the first post in our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability focusing on the role of cities in fostering disability rights.

Chris Waltz was appalled. He felt Democrats were using the Sandy Hook tragedy to tell him he wasn’t responsible enough to own an AR-15.

The program was about education. But it was also about surveillance.

A journalistic view of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, work, and representation in American society.

The ambivalence many Black soldiers felt toward the U.S. in WWII was matched only by the ambivalence the U.S. showed toward principles on which WWII was fought.

A new book illuminates how Black Americans used property ownership, common law and other methods to assert their rights.

Cliff Sloan’s new book explains how the Franklin Roosevelt-shaped Court wrestled with individual rights as the nation fought to save itself and the world.

Critiques of the Thirteenth Amendment have roots in a long history of activists who understood the imprisonment of Black people as a type of slavery.

A pair of minor league clubs are asking the court to reverse the league’s lucrative 101-year-old antitrust exemption.

Gloria Steinem on the making of America's first feminist publication.

Robert D. Bullard reflects on the movement he helped to create.

Machine-graded bubble sheets are the defining feature of American schools. Today’s kindergartners may never have to fill one out.

Tocqueville understood how constitutional review, without meaningful checks, could enable judicial despotism.

When it comes to the left, the state uses RICO to criminalize radicals as thieves and separate them from a broader base of support.

Friedan was indispensable to second-wave feminism. And yet she was difficult to like.

What does the academy have against the mother of second-wave feminism?

A project to bring to light the stories of these victims’ lives and to highlight the patterns of racial terror perpetrated across the Northeast and Midwest.

How white-dominated racial power produces inter-ethnic group conflict.

The Christian right is pushing a slate of laws to stop a new, vague offense they have dubbed “abortion trafficking.”