Justice

The era of Trump could mark the recovery in American civil society of the moral and political power of global human rights.

A semester-length guide for educators and citizens seeking to understand the history and meaning of immigration in the U.S.

In the late 19th century, Wells connected lynchings to the economic interests and status anxieties of white southerners.

Jo Ann Robinson is unfortunately overlooked by history.

Reagan never really believed that Martin Luther King, Jr., deserved a holiday.

W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A century ago, millions of Americans banded together to reform the KKK, the rest turned a blind eye.

Judy Juanita on her novel 'Virgin Soul,' which incorporates her experiences as a Black Panther living in San Francisco.

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.

The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians.

Operation Wetback didn't merely enforce immigration law-it enforced the idea that American citizens are white.

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.

In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast.

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

In many Southern states, "Brown v. Board of Education" fueled decades of resistance to school integration.

A wrenching new book recounts the bloodiest prison battle in our history.

Has the government done enough to stop housing discrimination?

Troy Davis' death at the hands of the state on Sept. 21, 2011, transformed Occupy and kindled Black Lives Matter.

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.

The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is part of a centuries-long indigenous struggle against dispossession.

It's time to acknowledge that White Catholics’ American dream was built on profits plundered from black women, men, and children.

Elizabeth Hinton discusses how twentieth-century policymakers anticipated the explosion of the prison population.

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.

Senator Fred Harris describes his experience on the Kerner Commission, tasked with explaining the causes of urban riots in 1967.

In 1966, the queens had finally had enough with years of discriminatory treatment by the San Francisco police.

Sociological data from immediately after the riots in Watts, Los Angeles, in 1965 show major disparities in attitude by race.

From lynching photos to Black Lives Matter – what does it mean to look at images of African Americans being murdered?

After emancipation, prison labor replaced slavery as a way for white Southerners to enforce a racial hierarchy.

On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were lynched in Marion, Indiana. James Cameron was one of them.