Justice

Coretta Scott King would become one of the nation’s most visible—and, to some, most dangerous—critics of America’s rapidly expanding war in Vietnam.

If calls for radical change aren’t given a political outlet, violence will always return.

The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.

On black leadership and interracial heroism during the Cold War.

Chronicling the vigilante crime that shook 1980s New York City.

Leaders of the American Historical Association overruled a motion to condemn scholasticide in Gaza, opting for cowardice over ethical clarity.

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. outlined a strategy to expose official brutality. Anti-ICE protesters are following it—and it’s working.

On M.L.K. Day, the death of Renee Good calls to mind another woman who died protesting for the rights of others.

Coretta Scott King condemned the brutality of the Vietnam War and criticized how it drained money from housing, health care, and jobs.

The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.

The Combahee River Collective’s 1977 statement reshaped the politics of the Black left and beyond.

He covertly assisted conductors on the Underground Railroad, but it was his possession of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” turned that him into an abolitionist hero.

America’s prison gangs first emerged in the late 1950s. Why did they form? What keeps them going? And how do they govern themselves?

Racial injustice was central to the establishment of the U.S. death penalty. Ending racial injustice must be central to its abolition.

DOJ civil rights lawyers' resignations after leaders' refusal to probe ICE murder echo past revolts as administrations tried to politicize the Division.

Barrett thinks transgender people have experienced “relatively little” discrimination. A brief filed in the trans sports cases aims to set the record straight.

Not all American policing started with slave patrols.

What we learn by tracing rebellions from Africa to the Americas.

A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.

The physicist fought for the promise of a diverse, meritocratic America. We need his optimism today.

It all might have been different without one night in 1977. A scandal followed—and, five decades later, no one agrees on what happened.

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.

Why jury size matters.

How the modern Left can carry his radical legacy forward.

The long struggle for the Americans with Disabilities Act.

During the Red Scare, a 1947 FBI report alleged the beloved holiday film contained subtly subversive anti-American propaganda.

A forgotten race war in McCarthy-era Miami.

The chief justice has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career.

The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work

William Goodell was praised by Frederick Douglass for being among the most important opponents of slavery in his time.