Justice

Leaked documents reveal coordination between big business and law enforcement to break up last year’s protests at Standing Rock.

In dismantling Obamacare and slashing Medicaid, Republicans would strike a blow against signature victories for racial equality in America.

"Removing the flag in South Carolina was one thing, but racism exists in South Carolina as policy and social practice."

An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.

Like many facets of the American past, mass incarceration looks different if we consider it through the lens of environmental history.

Black power, and the causes it supports, began long before the official Black Power movement.

Activists are working to preserve the history of the “wade-ins” that opened the space to everyone.

A project commemorating an often-overlooked civil-rights milestone recently received the Knight Cities Challenge prize.

The Espionage Act turns 100 today. It helped destroy the Socialist Party of America and quashes free speech to this day.

A new digital exhibit confronts the legacy of racial terror.

The Library of Congress' new exhibition is "Drawing Justice: The Art of Courtroom illustration."

Passengers angered by how they are treated during flight, may find an unlikely ally in the labor movement.

Decades of tough-on-crime policies that criminalized the poor and people of color are yet to be undone, but the pendulum is beginning to swing.

States with homogenous populations spend more on the safety net than those with higher shares of minorities.

The Long Hot Summer of 1967 was the inevitable result of forced duality.

Prisons today undergo criticism but in the 19th and the 20th century prisons treated their inmates as "slaves of the state.”

Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.

A housing policy expert explains how federal government policies created the suburbs and the inner city.

Eighty years ago, striking workers in Chicago were shot down by police. It transformed the course of labor rights in the US.

"I think we have to increase our shame — and I don't think shame is a bad thing."

It was all about the parallels between a new "bathroom bill" and the Jim Crow segregation of her youth.

Reform is simply not possible.

The story of how a group of poor whites in Chicago united with the Black Panthers to fight racism and capitalism.

Wild accusations, alternative facts, special prosecutors—the Salem witch trials of 1692 had it all.

She saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.

The autobiography of NBA star Craig Hodges contains lessons for the pro athletes who are speaking up today.

Those who honor Jackie Robinson must remember his importance outside the baseball diamond.

In the 19th century – when horse racing was America’s most popular sport – former slaves populated the ranks of jockeys and trainers.

The rise​ of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.

David Grann’s sweeping history of crimes against the Osage people.