Justice

During the 1840s, landlords tried to drive out tenants in default. The movement that rose to challenge evictions can be a model for today’s housing activists.

How white feminism failed Native Americans in the late-19th century.

The human rights activist and former sharecropper once said that “you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.”

Republicans in Texas, and indeed around the country, remain hell-bent on going back to the future.

The NPS is working with Cayuse historians and students to correct a historical lie that shaped the West.

Places and people in the struggle for Mexican American Civil Rights in San Antonio.

May Ngai uses her experiences as an activist in the 1980s and her research on the 19th century Chinese diaspora to debunk stereotypes about Chinese Americans.

The Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx on July 14, 1970. Their demand? Accessible, quality health care for all.

A review of "Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime."

President Benjamin Harrison promoted the holiday after a mob killed 11 Italian Americans and set off a diplomatic crisis.

Understanding Jesse Jackson and the radicalism of 1980s Black presidential politics.

Derrion Arrington explains the strike against Sanderson Farms in Laurel, Mississippi.

In 1950s America, the Cold War was raging, but socialists were playing key roles in the early civil rights movement.

Updating the Registry Act and uncoupling legalization from punitive measures could be first steps.

How does a plant become a crime?

Even as they carve out space for Black scholarship, established universities remain deeply complicit in racial capitalism. We must think beyond them.

It basically started the wave of activism that revived the left—and taught people to get serious about power.

In 2011, a grassroots anticapitalist movement galvanized people with its slogan “We are the 99 percent.” It changed me, and others, but did it change the world?

In 1969, a group of Puerto Rican youth in East Harlem leveraged a garbage problem to demand reform.

Two new books on the history of feminism emphasize global grassroots efforts and the influence of American women labor leaders on international agreements.

Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement, but those are views that King himself shared.

It’s time to demand law enforcement accountability for the death of unarmed citizens not just on America’s streets but also in our prisons.

Interrogated, examined, blackmailed: how law enforcement treated abortion-seeking women before Roe.

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

Historically, the failures and limitations of federal policy have emboldened activists.

If this nation hopes to achieve a justice system that is just, it must remain ever vigilant for any echo from Attica.

In 1905, the high court made a fateful ruling with eerie parallels to today: One person’s liberty can’t trump everyone else’s.

The history of patrolling sex in public.

Governor Ralph Northam pardoned seven young Black men put to death in 1951— a step forward in addressing Virginia's imperfect criminal justice system.

Winfred Rembert on protesting in the Jim Crow South and getting arrested.