Justice

The story of philanthropists Catherine Williams Ferguson and Isabella Marshall Graham’s unlikely interracial collaboration.

The provision, which makes it a felony to talk about abortion online, has been on hold since the Clinton administration. Could it be enforced in the future?

Formed in 1912 for “women who did things—and did them openly,” the Heterodoxy Club laid the groundwork for a century of American feminism.

To many urban Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.

At the heart of recent US Supreme Court decisions, the Fourteenth Amendment was framed to require free speech and free elections in the South.

How Christian conservatives' version of American history shaped the Supreme Court’s abortion and gun decisions.

History shows laws will end up as weapons deployed in discriminatory ways to curtail freedom.

How the movement to end legal abortion became intertwined with a different conservative pet project.

Cooper’s hijacking-as-extortion plot captured the public’s imagination – and inspired a copycat crime wave.

Organized movements to bring racial equality to the golf course have been part of the sport since the early 1900s.

The right might be targeting a seminal Supreme Court case that protects educational fairness.

The right to abortion is an affirmation that women and girls have the right to control their own destiny.

What we can learn from the work of the university administrator who went toe to toe with Howard Zinn.

The history of the Supreme Court is replete with outrages and abominations, but they can be tough to overcome.

Fifty years ago in 1972, as spring faded and summer arrived in late June, America (and the world) was a vastly different place.

The conservative Supreme Court's favorite judicial philosophy requires a very, very firm grasp of history — one that none of the justices seem to possess.

How the city’s pioneering, pot-smoking queer activist rose from the ashes of anti-gay violence.

The centrist, compromising view of reproductive rights in Planned Parenthood v. Casey helped clear the path to overturn Roe v. Wade.

How activists can secure legal abortion with a diverse all-of-the-above movement.

A lack of enforcement has blunted Title IX's transformative potential.

Why reinserting race and class into our understanding of Pride is so important.

It’s time to admit that the nation’s highest court has been a source of harm more often than it’s been a force for justice.

Black generosity has always been vital to the freedom struggle.

Looking back at the short but deep friendship of John Brown and Harriet Tubman, who gave their lives to the abolitionist cause.

In Oregon in the 1960s, the debate over capital punishment hinged on shifting interpretations of the gendered female body.

40 years after Vincent Chin’s murder, the struggle against anti-Asian hate continues.

"It didn’t make much sense for us to be talking about justice in the classroom if we weren’t willing to get in the struggle in the streets."

The Supreme Court has found protections for people’s privacy in several constitutional amendments – and used it as a basis for some fundamental protections.

Why vigilante violence appeals politically.

“The schoolhouse door cannot be closed to one of modern society’s most marginalized, most vilified groups.”