Justice

Reflecting on the tremendous impact of "The Souls of Black Folk," on the 150th anniversary of Du Bois' birth.

Fast-food workers in the Fight for $15 movement are making the same demands sanitation workers made five decades ago.

A review of "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America."

The roots of the influential institution at the center of the Trump-Russia investigation.

The hidden cost of formal recognition for American Indian tribes.

A new book argues that the fetishization of the first ten amendments is a recent thing – and that it comes at a cost.

Over the 1830s, Hamblin transformed the fortunes of the Bowery by featuring melodramas starring young women, but this wasn't without issues.

The February 1968 killing of three student protesters in Orangeburg, SC marked a turning point in the black freedom struggle.

By connecting liberation at home with an end to U.S. militarism abroad, today's black activists are picking up where MLK left off.

The shootings occurred two years before the deaths at Kent State University, but remain a little-known incident in the Civil Rights Movement.

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an abberation: US citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.

Two new biographies look at the life of Inez Burns, an uncompromising and extravagant turn-of--the-century woman.

The amazing true story of Bass Reeves, the formerly enslaved man who patrolled the Wild West.

How Louisiana built a carceral state during the War on Crime.

The Reverend Dr. Henry Highland Garnet may be the most famous African American you never learned about.

No other nation sentences people to die in prison for offenses committed as minors.

Contrary to popular conceptions, women were also instrumental to the spread and articulation of black nationalism.

Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, constantly defied those who tried to constrain her due to race and gender.

Four decades ago, Raymond Broshears armed his disciples to keep LGBT people safe from violent homophobes.

The debate between "originalism" and the "living constitution" rages on. What does history say?

Thomas Moss’ lynching, like many others in the South, was a punishment for becoming an economic competitor to whites.

Talking sexism, ageism, and progress with Katha Pollitt.

Fifty years after Loving v. Virginia, four scholars consider the legacy of the famous Supreme Court decision.

Black Muslims have been an influential force in the prisoners' rights movement and criminal justice reform.

On the 45th anniversary of the famous decision, Sarah Weddington reflects on what has – and hasn't – changed.

The story of an underground abortion service that operated pre-Roe vs. Wade.

"Able-bodied” doesn't always mean “able to work.”

Elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.

41 men are still being held without charges, without a way to leave, without homes to return to.

In 1968, a retired colonel warned that urban insurrections could produce “scenes of destruction approaching those of Stalingrad.”