Justice

"Once a mask is involved, people understand it as a sign of weakness. That the government has something to hide."

How Obama- and Biden-era immigration policies helped reshape migration at the US-Mexico border.

What William Grimes wanted John Quincy Adams to know about freedom on the 50th anniversary of the country’s founding.

The Trump administration’s efforts to narrow the scope of the 14th Amendment are based on revisionist history.

From its beginnings, deportation has been a tool used to threaten, suppress, and break dissent. ICE’s targeting of political enemies is no exception.

The largest high school student uprising in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the 1960s involved students sitting on their butts.

Courageous and frank communication can echo across history and inspire change long before the world is ready to accept it.

One of the most famous African Americans in his day, Robeson was marginalized for his political views.

In 1920s Rhode Island, the Ku Klux Klan expanded rapidly—embedding itself in communities and attempting to seize control of the state militia.

Black anti-fascists have long warned about creeping fascism, from slavery to mass incarceration to ICE terror.

Both Prohibition and current mass deportation efforts were hastily built, staffed by people permitted to use force, and had difficult objectives to achieve.

As a movement builder, spokesperson, and candidate for the presidency, Jesse Jackson was a towering figure of progressive politics in his era — or any era.

He was never the caricature his critics wanted him to be.

There is a line in the Emancipation Proclamation that deserves greater attention.

A new book features Bayard Rustin's essays and contemporary reflections on what today's Left can learn from his work.

The Garland Fund was not a typical foundation, but its history shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism.

It should not be controversial to acknowledge the hideous injustice done to Native Americans through colonization.

During the latter half of the 20th-Century, left-wing extremists influenced by Marxist ideology and antisemitism led a campaign of terror.

The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.

The use of unlawful imprisonment during the ‘war on terror’ set the stage for the US government’s detentions and deportations today.

It has only ever been migrant movements, rather than benevolent states, that have granted true safety for the endangered.

How the cruelty of the Confederacy’s prison camps gave rise to the rules of war.

How do we celebrate America's 250th anniversary as ICE and the Border Patrol threaten and abuse ordinary Americans?

A brief history of Pittsburgh’s first fair housing law.

Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now they’re cheering it.

However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too.

In 1912, Kansas City became the first U.S. city to arrest jaywalkers. Pushed by industry propaganda, it helped shift streets toward cars, not people.

The city’s all-out rebellion against ICE builds on more than a century of labor and social justice organizing, explains archivist Isaac Silver.

With nearly all of the victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre now dead, the country must find other ways to rectify its wrongs.