Justice

An admission of wrongdoing from the U.S. government came later, but a Supreme Court ruling had lasting impact.

Assessing age — and protecting children — has always been subjective.

Saidiya Hartman’s unrelenting exploration of slavery and freedom in the United States first appeared in 1997 and has lost none of its relevance.

The story of Motley's legal career prior to Brown v. Board, and her crucial participation in it.

Charles Sherrod wasn’t a big name, but his life has a lot to tell us about the civil rights movement.

Without Murray’s intense commitment to the freedom struggle, the more famous civil rights leaders would not have had the successes they did.

Felix Frankfurter was renowned as a liberal lawyer and advocate. Why did he turn out to be such a conservative Supreme Court justice?

A new biography explores the work of the influential abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, who wrote about the social, political, and cultural issues of her time.

Tying the fight for equal rights to the founders and the Constitution has worked before.

By age 44, most people are figuring out how to live and die peacefully. That was certainly not the case with sharecropper and hero Fannie Lou Hamer.

Service members were attacked, discredited, and shortchanged on GI benefits—with lasting implications.

Despite several new lawsuits, investigations, and the bombshell revelations, Trump’s fate will be like that of the former vice president.

When cattle barons carved up Texas with barbed wire in the late 19th century, cowboys formed fence-cutting gangs to preserve the open range.

An enslaved woman’s experience with General Sherman’s army.

An online roundtable on a new biography of Fannie Lou Hamer.

A new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction examines the ways in which Black Americans formed networks of self-reliance in their pursuit of emancipation.

How Oct. 1 came to be celebrated as “Jerry Rescue Day” in abolitionist Syracuse.

As a white teenager in Charlotte, Elizabeth Prewitt saw mandatory school busing as a personal annoyance. Going to an integrated high school changed that.

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

65 years ago this week, Edwin Walker helped enforce Little Rock integration. Then he devoted himself to segregation.

Moving migrants from Texas to Democratic strongholds is not new. The Reverse Freedom Rides of the 1960s hold lessons for activists of today.

Aaron Burr was the highest-ranking official to stand trial for treason, which some people have invoked now amid probes into ex-president Donald Trump.

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War – a racist system known as convict leasing.

Beginning in 1967, the Army built fake towns to train police and military officers in counterinsurgency.

Among the thousands of cases the Supreme Court has decided, only a handful of dissenting opinions stand out.

The modern Republican Party has tied itself to Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, the party is vulnerable to new issues.

The Supreme Court has watered down the policy’s core justification: justice.

For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?

The Civil Rights Movement was a radical struggle against Jim Crow tyranny whose early foot soldiers were Communists and labor militants.