Justice

The idea that justices exist outside of politics is a relatively new concept.

A new book documents the history of three specific mechanisms of expulsion: formal deportation, voluntary departure, and "self-deportation."

The Supreme Court, the federal branch with the least public accountability, has historically sided with tradition over more expansive human rights visions.

The activists of the 1990s worked so diligently that they were written out of history.

How American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.

Philadelphia’s PAL and the Black Panther Party’s efforts to mold black youth into their own image.

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg concludes an era of faith in courts as partners in the fight for progress and equality.

Was he or wasn't he a member of the Communist Party USA?

The link between medical abuse, racism and immigration runs deep.

I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth.

Expanding campus police forces’ power threatens to increase surveillance.

Without justice for all, none of us are free.

The short-lived radical movement within feminism has gotten a bad reputation for centering white women's experiences. Is that deserved?

Their main objective was to draw attention to racist state policies and demand their repeal.

Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson, Dave Winfield, Andre Dawson and Derek Jeter sit down to discuss the Black gap in baseball.

Is Trump a fascist? You should ask the same question of your local police.

As was the case in 200 years ago, this summer's relentless pyrotechnics may not be meaningless acts of an unthinking mob.

With democracy hanging in the balance in 2020, the Court is clearly playing a decisive and destructive role. Unfortunately, we’ve been here before.

One idea inherited from 1960s radicalism is that of “white privilege,” a protean concept invoked to explain wealth, political power, and even cognition.

On the passage and enforcement of laws to exclude or deport immigrants for their beliefs, and the people who challenged those laws.

At the height of his powers, the Black Nationalist leader was assassinated, and the government botched the investigation of his murder.

An accomplice of Emmett Till's killers murdered a Black man in a neighboring town, and there were parallels in the trials.

It wasn’t a culminating moment, but the start of a new fight to secure voting rights for all Americans.

A movement’s early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped.

Upon the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium, participants reflect back on the movement that changed their lives and L.A. culture forever.

The centennial of women’s suffrage which guaranteed all women the right to vote — has a lie at its very core.

The activist did not learn about her right to vote until she was 44, but once she did, she vigorously fought for black voting rights

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

In 1920, my American-born great-grandmother, Ida Brown, married a Russian immigrant in New York City.