Justice

On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics.

In the nineteenth century, laws in many parts of the country prohibited "undeserving" disabled people from appearing in public.

In the wake of 9/11, some called for rounding up whole groups of people but Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta knew the U.S. had done that before.

Transnational networks have long helped pregnant people navigate treatment options.

Fissures in the feminist movement should not be buried as signs of failure but worked through as opportunities for insight.

The 1963 March on Washington put a government guarantee to a job at the front of the civil rights agenda. It’s long past time to complete the work.

Today, drowning rates are disproportionately high among Black children. What’s being done?

Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.

If colorblindness rests on the claim that the civil rights movement changed everything, the idea that racism is in our DNA borders on a fatalistic proposition that it changed nothing.

Players, fans and authors recall the landmark 1971 starting nine.

These men, who had sacrificed so much for the country, faced racist attacks in 1946 as they laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement to come.

Dress codes are about social control, not student wellbeing.

Historians have demonstrated how central racism has been to the formation of the U.S. But many of those same ideas have also been vital to combating white supremacy.

For his talents on the diamond and his determination off of it, Curt Flood deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

An excerpt from the most recent book, "Not 'A Nation of Immigrants': Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion."

The long history of the international olympic committee's war on athletes' free expression.

In the gold-rush era, ceremonial greetings swiftly gave way to bigotry and violence.

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

Slave labor, overcrowding, and unmarked graves — the buried history of Atlanta City Prison Farm from the 1950s to 1990s shows it’s no place of honor.

His time working for Monsanto and other polluting industries helped make him the fierce conservative he is today.

Gay marriage was a victory, we’re told—but a victory for what?

During the war in Vietnam, there was a notorious American prison on the outskirts of Saigon: a prison for American soldiers.

Historical perspective on school integration.

Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women reject those narratives through world-making of their own.

Two books trace anti-police uprisings to the urban riots of the Civil Rights era. But as people took to the streets in 2020, why did so few pick up a brick?

The Supreme Court and the pursuit of racial equality.

How the case of the kidnapped paperboys accelerated the “stranger danger” panic of the 1980s.

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism.

Elkison v. Deliesseline presented a federal court with the question of whether a state could incarcerate and enslave a free subject of a foreign government.

What the Dred Scott v. Sandford case meant for black citizenship.