Justice

The gap in education equality is holding America back.

In 1968, history found us at a small women’s college, forging our Black identity and empowering our defiance.

Bay’s new book explores the intertwined history of travel segregation and African American struggles for freedom of movement.

King understood the perils of submerged racism.

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.

The 1958 civil rights protest by Black teens led to the end of segregation at lunch counters all over the state and inspired a wave of sit-ins across the country.

The acclaimed reformer stoked the white, middle-class feminist movement and brought critical understanding to a “problem that had no name”

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

Law enforcement and the urban-rural divide.

In the 1970s, gay patrol units in San Francisco and New York City rallied around their whiteness to produce a sense of safety.

How statistics were used in the urban North to condemn Blackness as inherently criminal.

After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail.

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Let the Lord Sort Them,’ Maurice Chammah explains where a 1970s legal team fighting the death penalty went wrong.

When I spoke with my boyhood hero 25 years after his famous home run, I learned why he’d kept going through the death threats and the hate.

During the 1860 presidential election, political parties dueled over the intent of the framers.

By making health care broadly available, the government helps ensure our freedom.

A new proposal for reparations for slavery raises three critical questions: How much does America owe? Where will the money come from? And who gets paid?

An experiment in oral history of the present.

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

The devastating cruelties these stories reveal also contain a fundamental truth about prison.

Commitment to racial justice, not conciliation, is needed to save democracy.

It’s a simple process that recurs throughout history: workers see injustice, they organize each other, and they fight for change.

Mexican-American workers have a long tradition of radical organizing, stretching back to the days of the IWW and the mid-century Communist Party.

The story of John Wolcott Phelps and his push for Lincoln to emancipate all slaves.

Why did the man known as the “father of Black nationalism” defect to the Democratic Party during Reconstruction?

By the end of his life, inspired by the radicalism of the Black Panthers, Baldwin was again ready to proclaim himself a socialist.

From covid-19 to the 2020 election, the specter of America’s racist history influences many aspects of our lives.

Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.

Limited education on Keller's life has implications for how students perceive people with disabilities .