Justice

When covering the struggle against school segregation in its own backyard, the paper of record came up short.

In an effort to awaken Americans to their own history, the Truman Administration conceived of a moving museum.

Does our approach to the First Amendment need to change in the wake of this summer's violence in Charlottesville?

A legal expert offers a First Amendment analysis of the summer’s violent rallies.

For more than a century, the American government has surveilled and harassed activists from marginalized communities.

Amid all the stories about harassment and abuse, there’s been hardly any discussion about how we got here.

Women are rising. Will they be able to create lasting change?

The city that just elected a civil rights lawyer as D.A. is the same city presided over for years by "Mayor Cop" Frank Rizzo.

What three seminal books from 1967 can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.

The 504 Sit-In was the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in United States history.

There would be no Richard Spencer without Louis Beam.

Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book preaches political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.

In 1867, African-Americans in Virginia stood up for their new political rights in the face of threats from their white neighbors.

David Gunn’s murder was the first targeted killing of an abortion doctor in America. His killer now has an opportunity for parole.

The racist roots of the opioid crisis.

Mamie Phipps Clark came up with the oft-cited “doll test” and provided expert testimony in Brown v. Board of Education.

A 1974 case gave the antiabortion movement a new playbook to whittle away abortion rights for poor women.

Two new books, including ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.

The story of the 19-year old who killed the white master raping her, and claimed self-defense.

The author of a new biography explains how Murray changed the way that discrimination is understood today.

A Second Amendment scholar makes the case that gun restrictions are not a recent phenomenon.

Remembering the black-fisted silent protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.

Frances Glessner Lee created meticulous and gruesome dioramas of murder scenes, which are still used to train police today. 

A review of "Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics."

The origins of the politics of “reverse discrimination."

The forgotten crusade of Morris Milgram.

The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.

While Trump's response was unprecedented, the inclination to highlight violence on the Left – especially from black Americans – is not.

In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in legal racism—the United States.

Throughout history, one would be hard-pressed to find an example of black protest that most white people found acceptable at the time.