William L. Patterson

In the 20th century, American Communists were seen as an enemy within. In reality, they were ordinary people with complex lives that deserve to be chronicled.

The charges, while provocative, offer a framework to reckon with systemic racial injustice — past and present.

Confronting the violence of U.S. policing requires an international perspective.

African American activists have long coupled these efforts with fighting against racist laws and racial violence.

In both cases, false confessions were used against a group of black men with only precarious links to one another.

The UN’s failure to dismantle the colonial order foreclosed the application of the Genocide Convention to Israel, South Africa, and the United States.

In 1949, truncheon-wielding police officers descended on the racially integrated concert of singer Paul Robeson.

The pursuit of justice has been defined by a rote binary of punished in a cage versus unpunished and free.