Justice

What we miss when we tell the story of women's rights activism as a strictly national tale.

When Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first woman on the Supreme Court, her views on abortion became a source of intense speculation.

Behind the scenes, corporate lobbying laid the groundwork for the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of so-called eco-terrorists.

It has been nearly 50 years since New York’s jails erupted in protest, but the lessons of that era feel more relevant than ever.

In 1867, the Fenian Brotherhood was caught running guns to Ireland, precipitating a diplomatic crisis.

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.

The rising tie between black activism and pro-Palestinian advocacy.

Since the 1980s, activists in Philadelphia have argued that the city has always been a refuge for asylum seekers.

On March 3, 1913, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade -- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote.

How a team of lawyers exposed lies about police violence.

T. Thomas Fortune changed Black History, and seems to have been forgotten.

The number of detained migrant youth has reached record highs and led to lawsuits over the Trump government’s treatment of minors.

Irish-born women were disproportionately imprisoned in America for most of the nineteenth century.

A look at anti-miscegenation laws across the United States.

The young Civil Rights activist was killed in the dead of night by police and the FBI. Who was Fred Hampton?

How Plessy v. Ferguson shaped the history of racial discrimination in America.

The Georgia governor’s election was the latest example of how James Madison’s words continue to shape our views on race.

And why they must resist the Court's current race-based precedents.

At a time when the US was divided on questions of gender, Alice de Rivera decided that she was fed up with her lousy high school.

He's remembered as a person of conscience who carefully broke unjust laws. But his challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.

Dr. King did not compromise on racial justice. Neither should we.

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.

The battle over police-torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.

A new book looks at four different experiments in feminist separatism.

A new book traces the role of Richard Oakes in the turbulent but transformative civil rights era of the 1960s and '70s.

A member of the 1960s-70s collective Computer People for Peace talks about the early days of tech worker organizing.

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.

A website with documents, maps, and essays about the lynchings that occurred in Texas between 1882 and 1945.

A new book details the cooperative practices of Black farmers in the Deep South and Detroit who played a key role in the Civil Rights movement.

How a passionate thirty-one-year-old systems analyst and a militant World War II veteran pushed the military to bend toward justice.