Justice

Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks during the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it shows why most proposals for police reform are bound to fail.

In a new book, historian Nicole Eustace reveals Indigenous calls for meaningful restitution and reconciliation rather than retribution.

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement.

While the Panthers have become a staple of pop culture, veteran members of the group remain invisible.

The surge in violence against Asian-Americans is a reminder that America’s present reality reflects its exclusionary past.

If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.

Orisanmi Burton reflects on the legacy of the Panther 21 on the 50th anniversary (to the day) of their acquittal.

The Supreme Court has refused to force White Americans to confront history.

The history of unarmed police brutality is rooted in anti-Blackness.

The police are an insulated political institution within cities empowered to enforce a racialized social order.

When Tuskegee student Sammy Younge, Jr., was murdered in 1966, his classmates focused their righteous anger on a local monument.

Opponents of birthright citizenship say there weren't any “illegal aliens” when the 14th Amendment was drafted. They're wrong.

The path to equality in the free Northern states was inconceivably steep. But in time, the movement maneuvered from the margins into mainstream politics.

Why unionism is so integral to achieving equality.

Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented how the educational institutions shaped a generation of black leaders.

The famous activist reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.

An excerpt from a new book that explores the intertwined history of travel segregation and African American struggles for freedom of movement.

On the legal foundations that spurred centuries of civil rights movements.

The young black men served a combined total of 130 years for a crime they never committed.

Airlines sometimes bumped Black passengers off of flights to make room for white travelers, even during refueling stops.

From grade school to college, students of color have suffered from the effects of biased testing.

During the heyday of the Chicano Movement, school walkouts were organized to disrupt what activists called “the ongoing mis-education of Chicano students.”

Mabel Ping-Hua Lee fought for the rights of women on two sides of the world.

The turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic could push the amendment across the finish line after a century of work.

Political activists Greta Thunberg and Helen Keller have been just as misunderstood by their supporters as by their detractors.

After a recent surge in anti-Asian attacks, the narrative quickly turned to hostilities between Black and Asian American communities.

As in the 1960s, the nation today stands at a turning point.

The history of the ADL and AJC reveals that they were created to consolidate the power of wealthy men and stifle the grassroots left.

Recognizing that is crucial to ending the violence and the hate driving it.