Justice

Racial covenants made it illegal for Black people to live in white neighborhoods. Now they're illegal, but you may still have one on your home's deed.

Our country's legal history renders the teen's case familiar if not inevitable.

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

Today, some Virginians would ‘protect’ children from the kind of valuable education that I had when my dad was governor.

For the poor, who are disproportionately people of color, the criminal justice system in the United States is essentially a plea-and-probation system.

Georgia enacted the Citizen's Arrest Law in an attempt to maintain control of enslaved people.

Regulations limiting armed travel in public, particularly in populous areas, stretch back over seven centuries.

“Here we are, a group of Black lesbian feminist anti-imperialist anti-capitalists trying to do the right thing.”

The Columbus Pacesetters weren’t satisfied being an afterthought or a gimmick, so they bought their franchise and the ability to make decisions for themselves.

Lawmakers are undoing the worst parts of 1980s drug legislation, but they have forgotten its ties to immigration enforcement.

Colvin, 82, is headed to court in Montgomery, Ala., to petition for her record to be cleared.

During the 1840s, landlords tried to drive out tenants in default. The movement that rose to challenge evictions can be a model for today’s housing activists.

How white feminism failed Native Americans in the late-19th century.

The human rights activist and former sharecropper once said that “you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.”

Republicans in Texas, and indeed around the country, remain hell-bent on going back to the future.

The NPS is working with Cayuse historians and students to correct a historical lie that shaped the West.

Places and people in the struggle for Mexican American Civil Rights in San Antonio.

May Ngai uses her experiences as an activist in the 1980s and her research on the 19th century Chinese diaspora to debunk stereotypes about Chinese Americans.

The Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx on July 14, 1970. Their demand? Accessible, quality health care for all.

A review of "Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime."

President Benjamin Harrison promoted the holiday after a mob killed 11 Italian Americans and set off a diplomatic crisis.

Understanding Jesse Jackson and the radicalism of 1980s Black presidential politics.

Derrion Arrington explains the strike against Sanderson Farms in Laurel, Mississippi.

In 1950s America, the Cold War was raging, but socialists were playing key roles in the early civil rights movement.

Updating the Registry Act and uncoupling legalization from punitive measures could be first steps.

How does a plant become a crime?

Even as they carve out space for Black scholarship, established universities remain deeply complicit in racial capitalism. We must think beyond them.

It basically started the wave of activism that revived the left—and taught people to get serious about power.

In 2011, a grassroots anticapitalist movement galvanized people with its slogan “We are the 99 percent.” It changed me, and others, but did it change the world?

In 1969, a group of Puerto Rican youth in East Harlem leveraged a garbage problem to demand reform.