Justice

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.

Exploring freedpeople’s struggle against police brutality during Reconstruction.

Will coronavirus prompt the house of cards of college athletics to come tumbling down?

The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.

A century after the passage of the 19th Amendment, women with felony convictions remain disenfranchised.

Policing public health is likely to result in increased racial disparities.

A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.

Clinton disparaged Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral. But Black radicalism speaks more to the present moment than Clinton’s centrist politics.

Open container laws criminalize working-class people and make public life less fun. We need to legalize public drinking.

The movement for racial equality echoes the vision of the “August First Day” holiday.

The inside story of Mayday 1971 and the largest mass arrest in US history.

An inquiry into a utopian vision of abolitionism.

Led by A. Philip Randolph, Black Pullman porters secured dignity on the job — and laid the foundation for the modern Civil Rights Movement.

How the American Anti-Slavery Almanac became an influential best seller.

Wielding the outside agitator trope has always, at bottom, been a way of putting dissidents in their place.

The amendment didn't “give” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.

The 'Gone With the Wind' film legend, who died at age 104, went up against a broken Hollywood studio system—and helped change the industry forever.

In 1963, after Sam Cooke was turned away from a hotel in Shreveport, Louisiana, because he was black, he wrote “A Change Is Gonna Come.” He was right.

The Sierra Club's executive director takes a hard look at the white supremacy baked into the organization's formative years.

The controversy over buildings, statues, and awards honoring racists has finally reached the baseball establishment.

The Texas Rangers were vicious enforcers of white power. J.T. Canales, who once fought against them lost, but the reckoning he sought is finally underway.

The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ’59—as told by them, their families, and a SCOTUS justice who remembers them all.

Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.

What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.

The Supreme Court has betrayed the promise of equal citizenship by allowing police to arrest and kill Americans at will.