Justice

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.

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.

Interrogating dominant white perspectives in mainstream media outlets, government records, and in the very definition of what constitutes a credible source.

Slave ownership was once as entrenched in American life as gun ownership.

Today, nearly 2.2 million Americans are behind bars. Can contemporary mass incarceration's roots be traced to LBJ's Great Society?

As a young woman, civil rights pioneer Pauli Murray discovered that the flag could be used as a symbol of defiance.

Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.

Since slavery, dogs have been used to intimidate and control African Americans.

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.

The conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Report portrayed race relations like no other report in history.

It's impossible to revisit the history of America's quest for racial purity without sometimes being reminded of the current public discourse.

A century ago, the commonwealth's leaders weren't circumspect about their motives.

The budding mogul had a soft spot (but a short memory) for wiseguys.

The civil rights movement was not nearly as admired by white Americans in its own time as we imagine it being.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Until fairly recently, President Clinton's narrow definition of adultery would have been backed up by the courts.

How efforts to bolster religious liberty set off a chain of unintended consequences.