Justice

The US carceral state is a monstrosity with few parallels in history. But most accounts fail to understand how it was created, and how we can dismantle it.

A biographer of Day talks about what we can learn from the iconic activist.

Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.

Judith Shklar fled Nazis and Stalinism before discovering in African-American history the dilemma of modern liberalism.

The forgotten environmental action that pointed the path forward for the left.

Robin D.G. Kelley on the predecessors to Antifa.

Sarah Collins Rudolph survived the 1963 church bombing that killed her sister and three other girls. She's still waiting on restitution and an apology.

In 1962, tricked black Southerners into migrating north and transformed families' lives forever.

In fact, Black activists and civil rights leaders have been advocating for compensation for the trauma and cost of slavery for centuries.

In a sermon two weeks after MLK's funeral, Walker urged young seminarians to be hopeful and take action for making change happen. His sermon has valuable lessons today.

Jerry Mitchell revisits a dark episode in the struggle for civil rights.

At a peaceful protest of Confederate imagery in the school in 1970, dozens of students were arrested, suspended, and the remainder expelled.

The case for electing "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Pete Rose to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism.

When Pete Townshend whacked Abbie Hoffman offstage.

How cars changed the lives of black Americans.

In 1959 there was a public debate on violence vs nonviolence in the pages of The Liberator magazine between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Williams.

Religion was no barrier for Southern lynch mobs intent on terror.

When four black men staged at sit-in at a Greensboro Woolworth's 40 years ago, Charles Bess was the busboy.

On the growing tide of racial animosity in 1930s Los Angeles.

Even Donald Trump’s most draconian and violent immigration policies are still circumscribed by the interests of capital.

Bribery! Impeachment! Drug smuggling! Gambling! Justices getting drunk in the chambers!

A new book uses the story of a former slave trader who profited after the Civil War by trafficking in convict labor to trace the historical roots of mass incarceration and racial profiling.

Minnie Bruce Pratt shares her own story as a lesbian within the South, and the activism that occurred and the activism still ongoing.

75 years ago, black leaders and activists shared a consensus around the importance of the labor movement and multiracial class organizing for black liberation.

In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.

The Northern Student Movement considered inviting Rosa Parks to give a speech on police brutality, but ultimately decided against it.

The most famous suffragists largely weren't anti-abortion and wanted women to have more control over their bodies.

Ayelet Waldman on the landmark case O’Connor v. Donaldson.

Guest poster C.C. Borzilleri writes about professional motherhood in the early American republic.