Justice

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.

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.