Justice

The ADL's influence on U.S. politics mobilizes against Black and Arab leaders, enforces pro-Israel stances, and capitalizes on anti-hate efforts.

Amid continued standoffs between tribes and states over treaties signed before statehood was achieved, the ruling is a victory for Native rights.

A new book rescues the Poor People’s Campaign from its reputation as a desperate last cry of the civil rights movement.

It's a struggle that's been waged for centuries.

The surprising story of the vigilantes who took it upon themselves to catch bank robbers in the 1920s and 30s.

Before Roe, abortion providers operated on the margins of medicine. They still do.

A century ago, the invocation of science was key to making Americans believe that newcomers were inferior.

A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.

The discretionary nature of traffic enforcement has left it ripe for abuse.

DC v. Heller recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution. Here’s why the case was wrongly decided.

Kap wasn't the first, and he won't be the last.

How Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult.

Louis Moore discusses Bill Bruton and the erasure of his activism towards integration in Major League Baseball.

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism.

A history of reformers targeting sex trafficking in pursuit of other aims.

At what point does resistance become the only choice?

And how black activists won the support of Democratic candidates.

Fifty-five years ago, a congressman made a single addition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that changed everything.

The explosion of kid-friendly paraphernalia led the federal government to crack down on pot.

Before Earth Day made a name for the environmental movement, a massive oil spill put a spotlight on the dangers of pollution.

The 1868 presidential election through the eyes of a Southern white woman.

His testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee was a turning point for the baseball hero.

As the country celebrates Jackie Robinson Day, let’s consider the career of Fleet Walker.

The two groups found common ground in the concept of Juche, or self-reliance.

Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.

A review of two new books that illuminate a range of still unrealized visions of anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-racism.

An immersive story about the bold women who helped secure the right to vote is on view at the National Portrait Gallery.

Georgetown University students consider a fund to benefit descendants of 272 slaves sold by the school nearly two centuries ago.

The film’s hero left a legacy of racist violence in Texas.