Justice

Early in our history, firearms laws were everywhere.

As Confederate monuments were erected, people turned out to vote in lower numbers in predominantly Black areas.

The right denounced it as “reverse racism,” while the liberal center hailed it as the endpoint of egalitarianism. But it has never been either.

Here’s what it’s like to report on the process as an Indigenous journalist.

The radical approach employed by black leftists at the Amenia conference set the stage for the civil rights unionism that would help topple Jim Crow.

Her athletic performance in New York impressed onlookers of all colors and cracked opened the door for a new generation of Black players to come.

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

How documenting the history of the drug war is a “community project” and reflections on 1990s rap music's anti-crack hits.

These 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump.

It was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order, and the town reluctantly prepared to comply. Then an acolyte of Ezra Pound’s showed up.

Critics of the Supreme Court think it has lost its claim to legitimacy. But proposals for reforming it must strike a balance with preserving its independence.

Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

The Supreme Court considers new arguments challenging admissions practices that colleges use to select a diverse student body.

Thousands of Indigenous children suffered and died in residential ‘schools’ around the world. Their stories must be heard.

He marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Ala., after he witnessed atrocities while liberating Nazi death camps.

Henry Choate, 18, was killed, dragged from the back of a car through Columbia, Tenn., and his body was hanged at the Maury County Courthouse.

To remain exclusively white after Brown v. Board of education, universities created scholarships to send qualified Black students to out-of-state HBCUs instead.

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

A relic of WWI that helped destroy the anti-war left, it remains a threat to news outlets, political organizers, and challengers of the surveillance state.

How much truth and healing can forensic tech really bring? On the sites of Native American tragedies, Marsha Small has made it her life’s mission to find out.

How a mob statute metastasized.

Today, historical figures are held in deep suspicion, but refusing to acknowledge the heroes of the past diminishes our own sense of what is possible.

And justified the most extreme responses.

The War on Poverty comes to life in a new book that explores how welfare mothers in Las Vegas built an organizing juggernaut that transformed lives.

An opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas exposed the limits of originalism.

Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was the fateful moment that the wave of hope finally broke for Black America.

Uncovering a tradition of African American radicalism that was—and is—a crucial part of the American left’s history.

Starbucks and Anheuser-Busch are the latest corporate targets of tactics honed by segregationists post–Brown v. Board.

William Magear “Boss” Tweed, who became a political force in New York as leader of the “Tweed Ring,” was found guilty in 1873 of 102 separate crimes.