family separation

A new book exposes effects of anti-Black myth-making and calls for an end to the family policing system.

Forced by the federal government to attend the schools, generations of Native American children were sexually assaulted, beaten and emotionally abused.

For generations, Native American children were removed from their homes and placed with white families.

The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.

In 1838, leaders of the Catholic order faced opposition from their own priests, but pressed forward with the sale of 272 human beings anyway.

Native Americans demand accountability for a federal policy that aimed to erase Indigenous culture.

Even after Wong Kim Ark successfully took his case to the Supreme Court 125 years ago, Asian Americans struggled to receive recognition as U.S. citizens.

Conjugal visits were first allowed as incentives for the forced labor of incarcerated Black men, the practice expanding from there. Is human touch a right?

Black refugees’ journey from Virginia to Boston after the Civil War.

Haaland v. Brackeen could have major consequences for tribes’ right to exist as political entities.

On the importance of material ownership in the context of Black history.

Examining enslaved mothers and antislavery literature on the eve of war.

When my father moved to Taiwan, a fax machine and a shared love of music bridged an ocean.

Her death was listed as ‘manic depressive psychosis,’ and it sent five of her six children to orphanages.

How Washington outsources its dirty work.

The letters show a desire for freedom and a desperate longing to be reunited with their families.

The anatomy of the “orphan train” genre.

After decades of keeping her identity a secret, Jane Roe’s child has chosen to talk about her life.

It’s a story of U.S. misdeeds, but also Native resilience.

Edward Spicer's writings indicate an awareness of the deeply unjust circumstances that Japanese Americans found themselves in within Japanese internment camps.