Justice

On the growing tide of racial animosity in 1930s Los Angeles.

Even Donald Trump’s most draconian and violent immigration policies are still circumscribed by the interests of capital.

Bribery! Impeachment! Drug smuggling! Gambling! Justices getting drunk in the chambers!

A new book uses the story of a former slave trader who profited after the Civil War by trafficking in convict labor to trace the historical roots of mass incarceration and racial profiling.

Minnie Bruce Pratt shares her own story as a lesbian within the South, and the activism that occurred and the activism still ongoing.

75 years ago, black leaders and activists shared a consensus around the importance of the labor movement and multiracial class organizing for black liberation.

In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.

The Northern Student Movement considered inviting Rosa Parks to give a speech on police brutality, but ultimately decided against it.

The most famous suffragists largely weren't anti-abortion and wanted women to have more control over their bodies.

Ayelet Waldman on the landmark case O’Connor v. Donaldson.

Guest poster C.C. Borzilleri writes about professional motherhood in the early American republic.

Using manumission to disentangle blackness and enslavement in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia.

Applying King to our contemporary moment.

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

Many of King’s words about allies ring true today.

Andrew Delbanco's new book positions the debate over fugitive slaves as a central factor in the nation's slide toward disunion.

The rich American history of Nazi-punching.

All white Southerners live with the sins of their fathers. But what if your dad was one of the most famous segregationists in history?

A pioneering black editor, he worked closely with African-American workers to advance a liberatory black politics.

The harmful policy was built on a shaky foundation.

The event originally borrowed sashes and pageantry from suffragists — whose vision for women we should honor instead.

Former occupiers are working to transform the system from inside and out.

The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.

The Friends of the SNCC published the story of the struggle for freedom in the 1960s.

Fifty years ago this week, a squad of Chicago police officers killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.

Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age.

Enslaved woman Charlotte thought she was "free" from the slaveowner. She was wrong.

The American Descendants of Slavery movement combines a left-wing critique of America’s founding with a distinctly right-wing strain of xenophobia.

The history of patrols, body cams, and more.

A new Trump administration proposal would undermine the rights of all workers and harm asylum seekers.