Justice

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.

Freedom Summer in the segregationist heart of the Deep South.

Although freed from slavery, Louis Congo's job as public executioner ensured him a life as a pawn of French officials and retaliation from those he disciplined.

The experiences of Michael and Zoharah Simmons show that the fight against the carceral state is embedded in a larger project of building a just world.

The story of George Jackson and his radical politics that challenged the American Government in an age of political repression.

The NFL's control over entertainment.

Success moving forward requires building a more inclusive movement than what existed during the Roe v. Wade era.

The Biden administration’s expanded use of Title 42 to expel asylum seekers will take a toll.

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

My mother’s part in the 1970 repeal of New York’s abortion law is a lesson for today’s activists: all politics is local.

Black refugees’ journey from Virginia to Boston after the Civil War.

"We have lost sight of some essential aspects of happiness that the founders clearly had in mind."

Rustin’s assessment of the lay of the political land was predicated on a no-nonsense understanding of the radicalism of the moment.

How the FBI's doomed attempt to stop criminal activity conducted via mobile phones shaped the regime of ubiquitous backdoor surveillance under which we live today.

Since the 1960s, border enforcement and deterrence policies have made migrants vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.

The unconventional origins of the modern antiwar movement.

Before Salem, this small town succumbed to the witch-hunting fever.

Trump champions “law and order” while calling for the Constitution’s suspension. But there’s no tension between the two.

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

Thousands of free-born Black people in the North were kidnapped into slavery through networks that operated as a form of “Reverse Underground Railroad.”

The history of segregation in the Navy — and its abolition — show how to combat institutionalized bigotry.

When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the future of affirmative action, I knew I had to be there.

The bonfire was a public spectacle for Black people, as well as any white dissenters. It was a calculated warning.

The evolution of the right to privacy.

The more liberals present originalist arguments, the more they legitimate originalism.

Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means?