Justice

And historians aren't exactly helping in the Harvard case currently before the Supreme Court.

Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.

As environmental rights seem on the verge of a comeback, it’s worth remembering why they once seemed so promising, and why that promise remains unfulfilled.

Involuntarily committing people with serious mental illness, however well intended, has long served to remove them from society instead of providing treatment.

The demand of antislavery activists for accused fugitives to be guaranteed a jury trial was an implicit recognition of Black citizenship.

Despite decades of Indigenous activism and resistance, UC Berkeley has failed to return the remains of thousands of Native Americans to tribes.

For Ellen and William Craft, a flight from bondage required a daring masquerade, with exposure a constant risk.

Three recent books examine the discrimination and hypocrisy at the heart of policing “vice.”

What the political fight over a photo teaches us about the power of art, grassroots activism and images.

Women’s rights activism has shaped America for the better throughout our history, so why should colleges be banned from teaching it?

Examining slavery, Indian removal, and state policies regulating mobility to trace the constitutional origins of immigration restriction in the 1800s.

During World War II, almost a half million POWs were interned in the United States, where they forged sympathetic relationships with Black American soldiers.

We see our history of racism against Black Americans as distinct from our immigration policy, but the two are actually deeply intertwined.

Today, the military is perhaps the largest integrated institution in the US. But how it came to be this way reveals a history of racism and resistance.

Reparations must be rooted in a political context that will safeguard rather than erode the gains they make towards justice.

One-hundred years ago, the U.S. government waged a deliberate and organized campaign against South-Asian Americans.

Decades before the recent police violence in Memphis, a brutally beaten Latino man was tossed by officers into a Houston bayou and drowned.

How a landmark Supreme Court decision was shaped by the racist idea that poor children can’t learn.

Conjugal visits were first allowed as incentives for the forced labor of incarcerated Black men, the practice expanding from there. Is human touch a right?

Ideas dating back to slavery have minimized opportunities for Black quarterbacks in the NFL.

Immigrant housewives and the riots that shook New York City.

Much of what's happening in American race relations traces back to 1966, the year the Black Panthers were formed.

A new book calls white evangelicals to reckon with the fact that the groundwork for their movement was laid, in part, by J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI.

It is worth digging a bit deeper into the family matters between John and Elizabeth.

The state wants to severely limit what professors can say in the classroom.

Revisiting "When Affirmative Action Was White," nearly two decades on.

Reversing the rising tide of femicide requires understanding its deep roots in the United States.

Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.

A glaring portrait of the human cost of law enforcement officers who claim to be above the law.

First-person accounts of those scarred in many ways by the era’s violence suggest Reconstruction did not fail, it was overthrown by violence.