Justice

Opponents of birthright citizenship say there weren't any “illegal aliens” when the 14th Amendment was drafted. They're wrong.

The path to equality in the free Northern states was inconceivably steep. But in time, the movement maneuvered from the margins into mainstream politics.

Why unionism is so integral to achieving equality.

Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented how the educational institutions shaped a generation of black leaders.

The famous activist reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.

An excerpt from a new book that explores the intertwined history of travel segregation and African American struggles for freedom of movement.

On the legal foundations that spurred centuries of civil rights movements.

The young black men served a combined total of 130 years for a crime they never committed.

Airlines sometimes bumped Black passengers off of flights to make room for white travelers, even during refueling stops.

From grade school to college, students of color have suffered from the effects of biased testing.

During the heyday of the Chicano Movement, school walkouts were organized to disrupt what activists called “the ongoing mis-education of Chicano students.”

Mabel Ping-Hua Lee fought for the rights of women on two sides of the world.

The turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic could push the amendment across the finish line after a century of work.

Political activists Greta Thunberg and Helen Keller have been just as misunderstood by their supporters as by their detractors.

After a recent surge in anti-Asian attacks, the narrative quickly turned to hostilities between Black and Asian American communities.

As in the 1960s, the nation today stands at a turning point.

The history of the ADL and AJC reveals that they were created to consolidate the power of wealthy men and stifle the grassroots left.

Recognizing that is crucial to ending the violence and the hate driving it.

How we came to rely on the courts, instead of the democratic process, for justice.

The radical women behind the original “dump him” discourse.

Thirty years after the police beating of Rodney King, it's clear that shock and anger don't translate into meaningful reform.

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.

Once, abolitionists had to imagine a world without slavery. Can we similarly envision a world where migrants are offered justice?

It’s difficult to describe anti-Asian racism when society lacks a coherent historical account of what it actually looks like.

W.E.B. DuBois, 100 years ago.

It would be hard to blame him if he had lost faith in the republic.

Claudette Colvin is a Civil Rights hero you've probably never heard of. In 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, months before Rosa Parks.

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.

The new crime thriller about a magnetic leader of the Black Panther Party is a sharp criticism of the FBI’s surveillance of social movements past and present.