Justice

Capital punishment and the legacy of terror lynching in the American South.

The answer runs through the history of anti-lynching laws.

From COINTELPRO to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.

How birthright citizenship became a barrier for undocumented immigrants.

How local prosecutors' offices have become stepping stones to higher office.

Rigid racial codes in the early 20th century gained the admiration not only of many American elites, but also of Nazi Germany.

Chinese exclusion in the 19th century exposes the limits of the justices' power.

How "enlightened" leaders of the early US ignored an Independence Day speech and set in motion indigenous peoples' brutalization.

What today's activists can learn from their victories.

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.