Justice

Clinton disparaged Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral. But Black radicalism speaks more to the present moment than Clinton’s centrist politics.

Open container laws criminalize working-class people and make public life less fun. We need to legalize public drinking.

The movement for racial equality echoes the vision of the “August First Day” holiday.

The inside story of Mayday 1971 and the largest mass arrest in US history.

An inquiry into a utopian vision of abolitionism.

Led by A. Philip Randolph, Black Pullman porters secured dignity on the job — and laid the foundation for the modern Civil Rights Movement.

How the American Anti-Slavery Almanac became an influential best seller.

Wielding the outside agitator trope has always, at bottom, been a way of putting dissidents in their place.

The amendment didn't “give” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.

The 'Gone With the Wind' film legend, who died at age 104, went up against a broken Hollywood studio system—and helped change the industry forever.

In 1963, after Sam Cooke was turned away from a hotel in Shreveport, Louisiana, because he was black, he wrote “A Change Is Gonna Come.” He was right.

The Sierra Club's executive director takes a hard look at the white supremacy baked into the organization's formative years.

The controversy over buildings, statues, and awards honoring racists has finally reached the baseball establishment.

The Texas Rangers were vicious enforcers of white power. J.T. Canales, who once fought against them lost, but the reckoning he sought is finally underway.

The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ’59—as told by them, their families, and a SCOTUS justice who remembers them all.

Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.

What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.

The Supreme Court has betrayed the promise of equal citizenship by allowing police to arrest and kill Americans at will.

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

Frank B. Wilderson III sketches a map of the world in which Black people are everywhere integral but always excluded.

167 Black soldiers were dishonorably discharged from the army in 1906. Two Angelenos corrected the historical record in the 1970s.

The United States often touts itself as a "nation of immigrants," but this obscures the real story.

Black abolitionist David Ruggles opened the first Black-owned bookstore in 1834, pointing the way to freedom—in more ways than one.

Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others.

African American women played a significant and sometimes overlooked role in the struggle to gain the vote.

Police reform is a time-honored counter-insurgency measure to quell rebellion.

The history of anti-Chinese violence in Truckee, California, is as old as the town itself.

The parallels between the summer of '32 and what is happening now are striking.

Winning the vote for women was a mighty struggle. Securing full liberation for women of color was no less daunting

How African-Americans in Early America celebrated the Declaration of Independence's ideals, even as basic freedoms were denied to them.