Justice

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.

‘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."