Justice

The 50th anniversary of a groundbreaking work.

The basketball great is now better known for his tie-dye and enthusiastic sports commentary, but in the 1970s, he was a polarizing anti-government activist.

For decades, Philadelphia has struggled with poverty and gun violence. Social uplift organizations of the past have demonstrated that racial equity is the key.

Decades of Supreme Court decisions have converted qualified immunity from a commonsense rule into a powerful doctrine that deprives people injured by police misconduct of recourse.

Yelling about schools gets people riled up. The outcome can be unpredictable.

King offered Americans the choice between acting in accordance with the Constitution and resistance to change.  In many ways, we face the same choice today.

Police from as far away as Alabama were watching.

The Post interviewed March on Washington participants and voices from younger generations to tell the story of Aug. 28, 1963 and what it means now.

A new book explores the Army’s struggles with race relations in the decades of civil rights and Black Power.

Why women civil rights organizers marginalized at this event, and how that affects our collective memory of the struggle.

Conservatives love to bemoan their supposed status as oppressed minorities in universities. But the college campus has long been a key site for the Right.

Early in our history, firearms laws were everywhere.

As Confederate monuments were erected, people turned out to vote in lower numbers in predominantly Black areas.

The right denounced it as “reverse racism,” while the liberal center hailed it as the endpoint of egalitarianism. But it has never been either.

Here’s what it’s like to report on the process as an Indigenous journalist.

The radical approach employed by black leftists at the Amenia conference set the stage for the civil rights unionism that would help topple Jim Crow.

Her athletic performance in New York impressed onlookers of all colors and cracked opened the door for a new generation of Black players to come.

Forced by the federal government to attend the schools, generations of Native American children were sexually assaulted, beaten and emotionally abused.

How documenting the history of the drug war is a “community project” and reflections on 1990s rap music's anti-crack hits.

These 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump.

It was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order, and the town reluctantly prepared to comply. Then an acolyte of Ezra Pound’s showed up.

Critics of the Supreme Court think it has lost its claim to legitimacy. But proposals for reforming it must strike a balance with preserving its independence.

Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

The Supreme Court considers new arguments challenging admissions practices that colleges use to select a diverse student body.

Thousands of Indigenous children suffered and died in residential ‘schools’ around the world. Their stories must be heard.

He marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Ala., after he witnessed atrocities while liberating Nazi death camps.

Henry Choate, 18, was killed, dragged from the back of a car through Columbia, Tenn., and his body was hanged at the Maury County Courthouse.

To remain exclusively white after Brown v. Board of education, universities created scholarships to send qualified Black students to out-of-state HBCUs instead.

For generations, Native American children were removed from their homes and placed with white families.

A relic of WWI that helped destroy the anti-war left, it remains a threat to news outlets, political organizers, and challengers of the surveillance state.