Justice

The 1982 attack against Vincent Chin redefined hate crimes and energized a push for today’s stronger legal protections.

The Lakota advocate helped thousands of domestic abuse survivors, Native and non-Native alike.

A new book makes the case for a more pragmatic anti-policing movement—one that seeks to build working-class solidarity across racial lines.

The Nixon administration saw methadone as a way to reduce crime rather than treat addiction.

In northern Louisiana, white supremacists slaughtered 150 African Americans, brutally thwarting their hopes for autonomy and self-governance.

Gardner's public service did not end with her lifelong advocacy for women's equality, but continued even after her death.

With the Comstock Act of 1873 coming back to life, reproductive care, LGBTQ protections, and a host of other civil rights are now at risk.

Anthony Comstock, the 19th-century scourge of art and sex, is suddenly relevant again thanks to Donald Trump’s worst judge.

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk rationalized his medication abortion opinion through a distorted reading of the long-dormant 1873 law.

Spiro Agnew was the progenitor of Trump’s politics. He also resigned from office and accepted a plea deal to avoid jail time.

The medication abortion decision by a federal judge in Texas focused on the rights of fetuses and the interests of doctors — not the rights of women.

Samuel Chase was the only Supreme Court justice to be impeached, after he openly campaigned for a president and told jurors who he thought was guilty.

A new book chronicles the decades-long fight to legalize abortion in the United States.

A careful examination of the Privileges or Immunities Clause shows what we lost 150 years ago.

Police have been using the snapshots in criminal investigations since the advent of commercial photography

In 1970, Angela Davis was arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial — and her eventual victory — proved to everyone that the justice system was corrupt.

The Richmond Bread Riot broke out during the Civil War when working-class women in the South became fed up with food shortages.

The tensions between the Manhattan District Attorney and President George H.W. Bush.

Even after Wong Kim Ark successfully took his case to the Supreme Court 125 years ago, Asian Americans struggled to receive recognition as U.S. citizens.

Taking up arms against slavery, the famous novelist foreshadowed the vexed role of the white woman activist today.

It’s nearly impossible to separate modern-day gun laws from race.

A new book offers the first full-length biography of newspaper editor, labor leader and minister Samuel Ringgold Ward.

The editors of a new book talk about the history of the Indiana facility — written by people who were held there almost 150 years later.

Two new books ask us to shift our attention away from the white vigilantes of Jim Crow and instead focus on what it meant for the survivors.

The first women to serve in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps helped improve military medicine and expand women’s opportunities to officially serve in the armed forces.

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role, but Parks was just one of many women involved.

How Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's activism set the stage for Lebron James and twenty-first century Black professional athletes.

The relentless radicalism of Benjamin Lay.

Police champions have long wielded new technology as a tool to project authority and legitimacy, while deflecting criticism.

The story of Morris Slater, aka Railroad Bill, prompts us to ask how the legend of the "American outlaw" changes when race is involved.