In Brazil, black COVID-19 patients are dying at higher rates than white patients. Worse housing quality, working conditions…
The agency's earliest ad campaigns emphasized youthful idealism, patriotism and travel opportunities. That was an easier…
Many militia members have championed the importance of individual rights, but have also backed a president who is now threatening…
The anti-fascist movement is a decentralized collection of individual activists who mostly use nonviolent methods to achieve…
The Supreme Court's pandemic-related move to oral argument over the telephone has improved those arguments and allowed…
Latin American history shows that sending out troops to quell unrest is a perilous move even in strong democracies. Usually,…
Livestreamed video coverage of protests across the country is the modern heir to decades of grassroots documentary filmmaking.
On the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, women's historic struggles to vote continue to resonate as the country…
Protests over police violence and white supremacy have erupted in almost 600 US cities. A historian of black social movements…
They're not really protesting – they're hoping to find an opportunity to spark violence and trigger a war between…
After a riot broke out in 1967, Minneapolis officials squandered an opportunity to address the structural racism that led…
The coronavirus-related closure of the Colombian border hasn't stopped desperate Venezuelans from entering – but…
Sweeping changes were possible in the past because black leaders were willing to risk their lives and call out problems…
Recent efforts to restore voting rights to the formerly incarcerated, a crucial Democratic constituency, could have important…
The cherished legal rights that Beijing seeks to suppress in Hong Kong were established, in part, by Vietnamese asylum-seekers…
President Trump has warned that he will send the military into states to curb protests. Is Trump’s warning bluster? Or…
Half a century after the federal government voided Jim Crow laws, the criminal justice system still discriminates against…
The militarization of local police departments has been associated with an increase in police violence against citizens.
The United States Postal Service plays a vital role in US civic life, one that helped shape American society more than 250…
A biographer of George Washington says that the father of the country would have no problem wearing the kind of protective…