In 1909, Pittsburgh police raided the Hill District, arresting 400 Black men on false charges, fueling injustice we see in ...

From Lamar Smith in Mississippi to Harry and Harriette Moore in Florida, Black activists were murdered for voting rights.

An interracial kissing case involving kids in 1958, left two Monroe, North Carolina boys locked up, beaten and barred from ...

Interview with University of Texas professor Peniel Joseph, winner of Texas Writer Award from Texas Book Festival ...

Tuesday marks the first Election Day since Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, giving voters an opportunity to weigh in on his ...

This essay traces how a theology of hierarchy migrated from the plantation to the pew, from slave codes to Jim Crow, from “Christian civilization” to “Christian America.” It also follows the ...

Davey D opens with the stakes in Oakland and beyond. Cities are floating policies that make it easier to disappear unhoused people, often by criminalizing basic survival. He notes how public ...

We must unlearn fear, individualism, and the inability to act in order to confront the threats of this moment.

The U.S. has long believed that unspecific laws threaten democracy. So why is the administration being so vague?

PEORIA, Ill. — An Illinois jury convicted a former sheriff's deputy of second-degree murder Wednesday in the shooting death ...

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