Justice

Using manumission to disentangle blackness and enslavement in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia.

Applying King to our contemporary moment.

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

Many of King’s words about allies ring true today.

Andrew Delbanco's new book positions the debate over fugitive slaves as a central factor in the nation's slide toward disunion.

The rich American history of Nazi-punching.

All white Southerners live with the sins of their fathers. But what if your dad was one of the most famous segregationists in history?

A pioneering black editor, he worked closely with African-American workers to advance a liberatory black politics.

The harmful policy was built on a shaky foundation.

The event originally borrowed sashes and pageantry from suffragists — whose vision for women we should honor instead.

Former occupiers are working to transform the system from inside and out.

The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.

The Friends of the SNCC published the story of the struggle for freedom in the 1960s.

Fifty years ago this week, a squad of Chicago police officers killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.

Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age.

Enslaved woman Charlotte thought she was "free" from the slaveowner. She was wrong.

The American Descendants of Slavery movement combines a left-wing critique of America’s founding with a distinctly right-wing strain of xenophobia.

The history of patrols, body cams, and more.

A new Trump administration proposal would undermine the rights of all workers and harm asylum seekers.

Since the invention of the automobile, police have used the dangers of America's roads to justify their growing oversight of motorists.

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, he dreamed of a pluralist utopia.

Southern legal codes included parallel language pairing “master and slave” and “husband and wife.”

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.

Forty years after the Greensboro Massacre, a survivor talks about that day, and why organized workers are such a threat to the powerful.

In the 1990s, a handful of researchers inspired panic with a dire but flawed prediction: the imminent arrival of a new breed of “superpredators.”

He wanted to be an ally of the Chinese immigrant. By pretending to be one himself.

Stella Liebeck was vilified when she was awarded millions after spilling McDonald's coffee in her lap. But the facts told another story.

How did today's bipartisan understanding of immigration—as an intolerable threat that justifies any means to stop it—take hold?

If you are unwilling to do this work — and it is work — then leave that word alone.