Justice

One of the biggest challenges for the NYPD, especially in the years following the turn of the twentieth century, was policing the newcomer immigrants.

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?

The 1898 Wilmington massacre overthrew the elected government in the majority-Black city, killed many Black residents and torched a Black-run newspaper.

Originalism is all the rage on the right, but a gun case at the Supreme Court is exposing its absurdity—even to the conservative justices.

Environmental radicalism, left and right.

Government, wrote Alexander Hamilton, should substitute “the mild influence” of the law for “the violent and sanguinary agency of the sword.”

The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?

A new film finally spotlights Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington.

Wherever we find the state engaged in potentially lethal repression, we find prison.

Characterised today by the noise of banging, buzzers, and the cries of inmates, solitary confinement was originally developed from Quaker ideas.

The UAW's patient organizing cemented an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.

Martin Scorsese's new film revisits the murders of wealthy Osages in Oklahoma in the 1920s

A new biography examines the life of the abolitionist, newspaper editor, activist, and globetrotter.

Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement.

Despite depictions of the Underground Railroad, escaping over land was almost impossible in the South. Thousands of enslaved people found allies on the water.

The abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.

It is time to recognize the power that organized labor can wield to fight for environmental, economic and social justice.

On Oct. 11, 1988, at the height of the AIDS crisis and a wave of homophobia, people were asked to take a daring step by declaring publicly that they were gay.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Siege of Wounded Knee, the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists.

Sylvia Mendez’s role in setting the stage for Brown v. Board of Education has been forgotten and overlooked.

In the past and present, librarians have fought book bans and censorship.

This is the first post in our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability focusing on the role of cities in fostering disability rights.

Chris Waltz was appalled. He felt Democrats were using the Sandy Hook tragedy to tell him he wasn’t responsible enough to own an AR-15.

The program was about education. But it was also about surveillance.

A journalistic view of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, work, and representation in American society.

The ambivalence many Black soldiers felt toward the U.S. in WWII was matched only by the ambivalence the U.S. showed toward principles on which WWII was fought.

A new book illuminates how Black Americans used property ownership, common law and other methods to assert their rights.

Cliff Sloan’s new book explains how the Franklin Roosevelt-shaped Court wrestled with individual rights as the nation fought to save itself and the world.

Critiques of the Thirteenth Amendment have roots in a long history of activists who understood the imprisonment of Black people as a type of slavery.

A pair of minor league clubs are asking the court to reverse the league’s lucrative 101-year-old antitrust exemption.