Justice

What we can learn from the FBI’s latest round of crime statistics.

The football players are following in a long tradition of protest.

The belief endures, from Armstrong’s time that visible, affluent African-American entertainers are obliged to adopt a pose of ceaseless gratitude.

A riot represents people making history.

We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.

How a simple request became a bureaucratic nightmare.

While the U.S. has expanded its borders of inclusion over time, the borders of whiteness have never fallen. Only a robust black public sphere can change that.

A profile of the founder of American University's new anti-racism center.

Comparing the methods of Oxford University in the U.K. with those of the University of Mississippi shows there’s much to learn.

After gunning down his wife's lover in broad daylight, Daniel Sickles tried to escape the gallows by claiming he was out of his mind.

In 1966, Atlanta Project members wrote a paper on the future of white liberals in the civil rights movement.

As Americans debated how the Civil War period is publicly commemorated, a battle over a related question was finally put to rest.

Here's what he thinks about national anthem protests.

The anniversary of two major revolts remind us that tough-on-crime policies have created intense suffering in our prisons.

100 years after a riot that left 19 people dead, descendants of the men held responsible are asking for posthumous pardons.

The civil rights activist and her family had to contend with racial discrimination beyond Montgomery.

What are Latin American ideas about race, and how have they been formed in relation to the U.S. and vice versa?

Native Americans' fights for environmental protection should not be seen as battles against progress.

A major investigation reveals that white parents are leading a secession movement with dire consequences for black children.

This collection of piracy trials comprises documents that were published before 1923 and that are part of the holdings of the Law Library of Congress.

The anti-fascist left stems from a long tradition of violence and protest in America.

Was the white-nationalist march better understood as a departure from America’s traditional values, or viewed in the context of its history?

Overlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation's first radicals to argue for an end to slavery.

The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes.

The disastrous consequences of focusing on law enforcement and criminality.

When the organization first defended Nazis, it did so for practical reasons.

The KKK was on the march in the 1980s. What strategies worked to stem their rise?

The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti over ninety years ago is a reminder of how the American state treats radicals.

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.

A 1928 essay by W.E.B. DuBois on the legacy of Robert E. Lee.