Sherrilyn Ifill

In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

A movement’s early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped.

While lynching is most closely associated with former Confederate states, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country.

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.