Justice

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement marks the end of an era on the Supreme Court—and a turn toward hard-edged partisanship.

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.

Everyone from immigration advocates to bigots and nativists have valued family unity.

Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.

The New Orleans Fire Department was accused of not responding immediately and refusing to touch the bodies of victims.

The violent rise of white supremacy after the Vietnam War.

Not every concentration camp is Auschwitz. The term is much older.

I was sent to a camp at just 5 years old — but even then, they didn't separate children from families.

The ERA has been dead for 36 years, but now women may have the tools to overcome opposition.

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.

She is remembered for being a "first," but it was her integrity, courageousness, and conviction that made her an icon.

After winning 6 percent of the vote in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs ran afoul of the nation's new anti-sedition laws.

Mental health care has never been adequate in the U.S.

On the white privilege of being able to ignore the racial context of Johnson's Jim Crow-era conviction.

Since the 1994 Crime Bill signed into law by Bill Clinton, refugees have been deported in droves. And Southeast Asians are being targeted.

African American women’s voices from slave narratives to #MeToo.

Angry that ICE is ripping families apart? Don’t just blame Trump. Blame Clinton, Bush and Obama, too.

A century ago, these documents were used to reinforce segregation. Today, they’re being used to impose binary identities on transgender people.

Wilma Rudolph won three Olympic golds and was among the first athletes to use her celebrity to fight for civil rights.

How the entertainer was blacklisted for standing up to the President.

Why the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision was a major loss for gay rights.

The long road to "Citizens United."

How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it.

We must dive deeper into the intellectual artifacts of black women thinkers to support the evolution of black feminist discourse and political action.

Marc Dollinger argues that the conventional wisdom of Black and Jewish harmony during the civil rights era is flawed. The real story has lessons for today.

In an effort to address centuries of systemic racism, a new online tool seeks to connect Black, brown, and Indigenous farmers with land and resources.

The influential activist was a strong proponent of Pan-Africanism.

The persistence of a mythic second amendment in contemporary Constitutional culture.

As young girls, they fought the fierce battle to integrate America’s schools half a century ago.

In 1936, Victor Green published a guide of restaurants, gas stations and lodgings that would accommodate African Americans travelling across the country.