Justice

Race is a social fiction imposed by the powerful on those they wish to control.

In a span of less than 12 hours a German college professor set off a bomb in the U.S. Capitol & assaulted J.P. Morgan Jr. at his home on Long Island.

The internecine conflict and the institution of slavery could not and did not end neatly at Appomattox or on Galveston Island.

Examining histories of mass incarceration and views on teaching histories of the carceral state.

It has been 90 years since Ossian Sweet tried to move into his new home; since police stood by and did nothing as a mob threw rocks.

It’s in vogue to call the new movement against police violence "leaderless." But as Ella Baker taught us, it's more correct to say that it has many leaders.

Griswold v. Connecticut became about privacy; what if it had been about equality?

Philadelphia native Gene Demby was 4 years old when city police dropped a bomb on a house of black activists in his hometown.

One man’s archive of a vanished culture.

The short life and long legacy of the 19th-century reformer William Apess.

The right to vote is under the greatest threat since the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

In 1919, white Americans visited awful violence on black Americans. So black Americans decided to fight back.

How a post-Civil War massacre impacted racial justice in America.

Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

When the Supreme Court willfully misreads the Constitution, FDR’s plan doesn’t seem so bad.

Despite Freedom of Information requests throughout the years, New York still will not release records to the public.

What is the greatest libertarian accomplishment of all time? The abolition of slavery.

On the religion, segregation, the civil rights movement, violence, and hypocrisy.

"If the times have changed, Abbey’s ideas about freedom have in some ways never been more relevant."

What we should learn from Senator Abraham Ribicoff’s failed attempt.

The militant abolitionist's execution set a precedent for armed resistance against the federal government with implications for those who had condemned him.

The case he didn’t expect to lose. And why it mattered that he did.

Patsy Sims reflects on her interview with the man who was instrumental in the death of three black men in Mississippi.

For the people of Old Bhopal, an accident there had sent forty metric tons of methyl isocyanate into a runaway reaction that released a toxic gas.

None of these iconic photographs would exist without the brave photographers documenting the civil rights movement.

A review of "Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity," by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

A Library of Congress exhibit on the context, passage, and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Eleanor Kirk's guide offered a way to break into the boys’ club of publishing.

The stall-in threatened to interrupt a certain imaginary of progress, democracy, and freedom with the reality of racial injustice.

America's home front was the site of internment, deportation, and vast property seizure.