Justice

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."

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.