Justice

‘Specimens’ were acquired from Africa, Asia, and the Americas by deceptive human traffickers.

Fifty years ago, teenagers organized a multi-school walkout that galvanized the Mexican-American community in Los Angeles.

The radical vision of Wages for Housework.

As businesses are pressured to abandon the NRA, one scholar looks at the efficacy of boycotts past.

Student walkouts have changed American history before. Here's how.

Because both thinkers neglect political economy, they end up promoting a politics that is responsible for the nation's growing inequality.

To those outside the black community, the Nation of Islam’s persistent appeal, despite its bigotry, can seem incomprehensible.

Its text and context don’t ensure an unlimited individual right to bear any kind and number of weapons by anyone.

A history lesson for attorney general Jeff Sessions.

Dred Scott was an opportunity to settle what the South had previously been unable to achieve either legislatively or judicially.

This is ultimately a disagreement over how we talk about school segregation.

As the Statue of Liberty turned 100, our long battle over immigration was having its moment in Reagan’s America.

How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent.

‘The young Mexican American is tired of waiting for the Promised Land.’

A review of "Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable" by Erwin Chemerinsky.

The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.

How a landmark report on the 1960s race riots fell short on police reform.

“The law itself was very, very broad.”

Released 50 years ago, the report concluded that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence.

Seventy-five years before Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that newspapers were entitled to First Amendment protections.

The NRA misquotes George Mason to support its own view of "well-regulated militia."

Courageous Americans have been undermined by conspiracy theories for more than 150 years.

For decades, we’ve been replaying the same absurd partisan debate over whether to take high school activism seriously.

An early nineteenth-century feminist fights back against a narrow view of woman’s place in society.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

The ban's critics say it failed to prevent gun violence, but they're misinterpreting the law's intent.

The phrase "trail of tears" resonates in American conversation because the country is still coming to terms with what happened and what it means.

Separate hospitals for black and white patients were the norm in America, but then all of that changed — and it changed quickly.

What the government's successful clampdown on Quaaludes can teach us about gun control.

The history of Black Socialism in America.