Justice

The symbol was born from a dark time in history.

Before Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against “separate but equal.”

Here’s why that didn’t work during WWI.

A central component of the history of racism is the intersection in which geography and race collide.

In Green v. New Kent County, the Court saw school desegregation as a reparative process.

Why did David Clark campaign to keep kids working in the early 20th century? For one thing, it benefited his interests.

How John Marshall, Joseph Story, and Roger Taney strengthened the institution of slavery and embedded in the law a systemic hostility to fundamental freedom and basic justice.

Scholars disagree on existing precedents—and the question won’t be settled until evidence leads a prosecutor to try it.

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.

Scott W. Stern’s book documents a decades-long program to incarcerate “promiscuous” women.

How seaside towns throughout the northeast limited the ability of ‘undesirables’ to access public beaches.

America’s laws against lingering have roots in Medieval England. The goal has always been to keep anyone “out of place” away.

Despite Jeff Sessions’ new mandate along the border, the Justice Department has prioritized immigration offenses for years.

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.

Before Stowe's famous novel, a formerly enslaved African-American living in Canada wrote a memoir detailing his experience.

How a conservative agenda and a feminist cause came together to transform criminal justice.

Rather than seeking a national solution, activists are taking to states across America to combat the deep roots of poverty.

Baldwin demands that the Atlanta child murders be more than a mere media spectacle or crime story, and that black lives matter.

A generation ago, historians dismissed the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. On the eve of a reboot, we can see it in a different light.

The American commercialized version of Mother's Day isn't what the founder intended.

On VE Day, we remember black Americans' Double V campaign: victory in Europe against fascism, victory at home against racism.

Lies about history long protected lynching.

America’s favorite piece of workout equipment was developed as a device for forced labor in British prisons.

How the Chinese community of Tacoma, Washington Territory was violently expelled in 1885, and what happened next.

The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.

Decades before the Miranda decision, a Washington triple-homicide paced the way to protect criminal suspects.

The lesser-known beginning of the desegregation of public transportation.

Men no longer have unfettered access to women's bodies. Not everyone is happy about that.

Research shows that many more Native Americans were lynched than previously believed.

This is the man who has criticized the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King as "shameful."