Justice

The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.

Is the American conception of constitutional rights too absolute?

The newly conservative court may target the decision that allows for a minimum wage.

Why abolitionist Lydia Maria Child raged at President Lincoln’s political calculations.

One focus of the 1960s struggle for civil rights in the North were the construction industries of Philadelphia, New York and Cleveland.

Eavesdropping flourished after WWII, aided by legal loopholes, clever hacks, and “private ears”.

Efforts to roll back abortion and contraception access aim to control women’s sexuality.

The Black feminist collective's 1977 statement has been a bedrock document for academics, organizers and theorists for 45 years.

Research on psychedelics has been riddled with medical racism and exclusion but it hasn’t stopped Black people from finding creativity and solace through drugs.

A few decades ago, the left and the right, politicians and the public, universally embraced the criminalization of drug use. But a new consensus has emerged.

Barbara Ann Richards designed—and then demanded—the life she deserved.

Prisons have been controversial since their beginnings in the late 1700s — why do they keep failing to live up to expectations?

Asian Americans have been both the victims and perpetrators of racial discrimination.

When the war in Ukraine finally ends, will we take peace organizations and peace movements more seriously?

She’s mostly remembered for one famous speech. Her actual legacy is far greater than that.

Theresa Malkiel fled persecution in Russia and ended up in a New York sweatshop.

It’s a chance to spotlight the challenges for women, especially mothers, in the workplace.

Barbara Smith, a key contributor to contemporary Black feminist thought, formed the Combahee River Collective to address Black women's interlocking oppressions.

Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?

Most Americans probably don’t know this piece of Black history. But they should.

What’s happening amid the coronavirus pandemic is nothing new.

Built on the momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom.

As liberation movements bloomed, they offered a vision of reproductive justice that was about equality, not just “choice.”

Addressing systemic racism and state violence is not enough.

The documentary short “Catwoman vs. the White House” reconstructs an unexpected moment of activism during the Vietnam War.

Restriction and deportation exist in opposition to the political traditions of the African American freedom struggle.

The reasons Black Union soldiers left their army during the Civil war were varied, with poor pay, family needs and racism among them.

Why have historians overlooked the connections between abolitionism and the famous New England cultural movement?

What prioritizing white happiness tells us about race and K-12 education.

A review of three books about Abraham Lincoln, the 14th Amendment, and Reconstruction.