Justice

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.

We can’t fix our immigration policy without understanding its history.

To alleviate voters' fears during the Civil War, Northern governors refused to open their states to formerly enslaved refugees.

Abolishing slavery wasn’t enough. Someone had to actually free the enslaved people of the American south.

It was 1872 and the commander-in-chief kept riding his horse too fast through the streets of Washington.

The lawsuit against Harvard forces us to talk about Asian Americans' role in the racial equity debate.

CNN's firing of Hill fits into a troubling history of repressing black voices on Palestine.

A decade before Roe, Pat Maginnis’ radical activism—and righteous rage—changed the abortion debate forever.

John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve understood it, an expression of principle and the rule of law.

A new book shows how women's leadership in black nationalist movements has always been hidden in plain sight.

Unfair maneuver or a strong warning to would-be criminals?

The marketing of stewardesses’ bodies was long an integral part of airline marketing strategies.

DNA, race, and native rights.

A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.

Passage of the ERA seemed like a sure thing. So why did it fail to become law?

Understanding the politics behind Cooper Union's 'We Dissent' exhibition.

A Pulitzer historian assesses what we are to make of UVA’s founder, 200 years hence.

Abortion and America’s new sectional divide.

An oral history of weed legalization’s first wave in the 1990s.

In the 1980s, millions of antinuclear activists took to the streets, forcing Western governments to respond to our demands.

Black people emerged from the war bloodied and scarred. Still, the war marked a turning point in their struggles for freedom.

Losing the support of the Supreme Court is disappointing, but it need not be the death knell of progress.