Justice

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.

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.