Justice

James Armistead was an enslaved man who provided critical intel to the Continental Army as a double agent during the Revolutionary War.

Decades after Nixon waged war on pot, Trump is doing the some with opioids. It could make things worse.

Critics argue the move would violate the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. One problem: There is no 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.

Imagine a class on gun control activism. Here's what its syllabus might look like.

Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.

A brief history of the movement that transformed a university and helped catalyze the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Fifty years after President Johnson signed it into law, the bill has failed to create an integrated society.

It wasn't always this way.

A new history recovers the forgotten legacy and radical implications of the Kerner Commission.

The high-water mark of the anti-immigrant and anti-German hysteria that gripped the nation during World War I.

Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.

On history, race, and guns in America.

Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis 50 years ago to help 1,300 black sanitation workers on strike. Ozell Ueal was one of them.

MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.

Her death is a useful reminder that students have often served on the political front lines.

Coretta Scott King described “a major, high-level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband.” The King children remain certain of that, too.

King Jr., remembered today for his non-violent resistance, was a radical reformer who called for fundamental redistribution of economic power and resources.

The link between immigration and crime exists in the imaginations of Americans, and nowhere else.

The history of suffragist dining spaces in the U.S.

After MLK's assassination, James Baldwin attempted to reconcile the divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.

How businesses campaigned to win constitutional rights and expand their political reach.

Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, about a thousand black southerners sued whites who had wronged them.

Huerta was far more than an assistant of Cesar Chavez, leader of United Farm Workers, and she risked her life for her activism.

In April 1968, students took over campus buildings in an uprising that caught the world’s attention. Fifty years later, they reflect on what went right and what went wrong.

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.

How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument.

The success of the 1963 March on Washington hinged on a confluence of factors that aren't yet present for demonstrators today.

With wiretapping in the headlines and smart speakers in millions of homes, a look back to the early days of eavesdropping.

Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.