Justice

African American educators became the ‘hidden provocateurs’ who spearheaded the push for racial justice in education.

Instead of trying to eliminate hunger, we continue to talk about personal responsibility.

The history of the fight for single-payer health care for the elderly and poor should inform today's movement to win for Medicare for All.

A pardon request for Aaron Dwight Stevens argues that slavery-related crimes are null.

Five historians weigh in on a new book about the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.

Though Helen Keller’s childhood triumph over the difficulties of her deaf-blindness are known, many are unaware of her second act as an activist and orator.

The rights we save may be our own.

Rebels in the post-Civil War South perfected the art of excluding voters, but it was yankees in the North who developed the script.

A look at the evolution of the prison system in California.

Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, and the sporting middle ground.

"It’s going to change how we think about Texas history and how we think about ourselves and how we built this state."

Guaranteeing citizen status simply for being born here is a deliberate misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment.

His brutal killing shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement.

The Colored Convention Movement, black citizenship, and the Fourteenth Amendment.

The fight over the 150-year old language in the Constitution is a battle for the very heart of the American republic.

In the five years since the landmark decision, the Supreme Court has set the stage for a new era of white hegemony.

Commemoration of the 14th Amendment must not display the abundance of freedom, but the hunger for it on both sides of the border.

In 1868, black activists had already been promoting birthright as the basis of their national belonging for nearly half a century.

A hundred and fifty years after its ratification, some of its promises remain unfulfilled—but one day it may still be interpreted anew.

The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment marked a turning point in U.S. history. Yet 150 years later, its promises remain unfulfilled.

The right has demonstrated that winning this kind of institutional fight takes years and requires a ruthless disposition.

What Dred Scott teaches us about thwarting bad law.

The Court got it right—but it's not a conclusion we should be entirely comfortable with.

Had British authorities and their soldiers exercised de-escalation tactics, would the United States exist today?

The struggle at universities was never a simple conflict of generations.

260,000 Filipinos served in World War II, when the country was a US territory. Most veterans have never seen benefits.

Why an FDR plan from the 1930s is suddenly popular again.

It used to be that nobody would admit to opposing a nominee for ideological reasons. Should we be happy that illusion is over?

America has always discriminated in the name of national security. It’s just gotten better at pretending it’s not.

How eugenics shaped America's immigration policy.