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Civil Rights
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Woman in Emmett Till Killing
By Michael Goldberg / AP
For Breonna Taylor's Supporters, Justice Finally Came
By Josiah Bates
Interview: Jim Obergefell on Same-Sex Marriage Anniversary
By Madeleine Carlisle
The Surprisingly Progressive Promises of General Order No. 3
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Civil Rights
The Small Tennessee Town at the Center of a Big Lawsuit
A Black town in Tennessee is in the middle of a legal battle against the state comptroller over its very right to exist
By Josiah Bates
May 3, 2022
The Tormented Rise of Abolition in 1830’s America
Abolition in America stood at a crossroads in the mid-1830s. Reviled in the national press, denounced by demagogues, and attacked by mobs, abolitionists faced unprecedented hostility and violence coordinated by Southerners and their sympathizers in...
By J. D. Dickey
March 1, 2022
The History Behind Earl Caldwell's Supreme Court Case
In the fall of 1968, journalist Earl Caldwell had just gotten back to the New York Times' offices in New York City from a reporting trip in California. As he recalls, he was at his...
By Josiah Bates
February 28, 2022
The Enduring Timeliness of Frederick Douglass’s Last Major Speech
Premiering on HBO and HBO Max on Feb. 23, a new documentary Frederick Douglass in Five Speeches looks at the life of the most famous abolitionist of the 19th century through five of his key...
By Olivia B. Waxman
February 22, 2022
Ahmaud Arbery Killers Found Guilty of Federal Hate Crimes
The three men who were convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery were all found guilty of federal hate crimes trial on Feb. 22—after the jury spent less than 24 hours deliberating. The verdict comes just a...
By Josiah Bates
February 22, 2022
How Eleanor Roosevelt Worked to Stop Her Husband Approving Japanese Internment Camps During World War II
In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, rumors of sabotage and imminent further attacks found fertile ground in the minds of a nervous American public. In a press conference...
By Francine Uenuma
February 18, 2022
Black Politicians Elected in the South After the Civil War
At least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting in 2021, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law limiting the number of drop boxes for...
By Olivia B. Waxman and Video by Arpita Aneja
February 7, 2022
Louisiana Gov. Pardons Homer Plessy, 125 Years After SCOTUS ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling
On Jan. 11, 1897, Homer Plessy pleaded guilty in a New Orleans district court for sitting in a whites-only train car, eight months after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Louisiana’s Separate Car Act and a...
By Olivia B. Waxman
January 5, 2022
The Conservative Case For Prison Reform
Jeremy Cady and I first met on the plush green grass in front of the Missouri Capitol. It was the spring of 2009, and once a week or so a group of capitol staffers, reporters,...
By Tony Messenger
December 23, 2021
The Grim History of Christmas for Enslaved People in the Deep South
Amid contentious national pushback over how much of the full history of slavery in the United States should be taught in schools, the holiday season represents a particularly overlooked period. Around the time Christmas was...
By Olivia B. Waxman
December 21, 2021
The Many Lives of H. Rap Brown
He sits in prison after decades of fighting for Black liberation, forgotten by the nation that never understood him
By Rembert Browne
November 1, 2021
Read an Excerpt From the New John Lewis Graphic Memoir 'Run'
In an excerpt from the new installment of John Lewis' graphic-novel memoir, the late Congressman grapples with a changing civil rights movement
By John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
August 3, 2021
How Prison Gerrymandering Distorts Political Representation
When Floyd Wilson first learned of the term “prison gerrymandering,” he’d already been incarcerated for more than 35 years. He was taking a college seminar in a prison in Graterford, Pennsylvania—the fourth of five correctional...
By Sanya Mansoor and Madeleine Carlisle
July 1, 2021
The Forgotten Stories of America's Black Wall Streets
A century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, what happened there is finally more widely known—but other "Black Wall Street" stories remain hidden
By Video by Arpita Aneja and Olivia B. Waxman
May 28, 2021
Inside Ben Crump's Quest to Help David Beat Goliath
Ben Crump negotiated a record $27 million settlement from Minneapolis for the family of George Floyd, the latest in a string of civil court victories
By Janell Ross/Minneapolis
May 4, 2021
The Story Behind TIME's George Floyd Cover
As a jury's guilty verdicts were handed down on Tuesday to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, on trial for the murder of George Floyd, people across America found a moment to exhale. Houston-based artist...
By Victor Williams
April 22, 2021
Past Capitol Activists Slam Police Leniency to Pro-Trump Mob
Wednesday’s events have increased scrutiny around the question of who is allowed to feel safe on Capitol grounds
By Sanya Mansoor
January 8, 2021
The Anti-Gay 'Lavender Scare' Not Taught in Schools
Under President Eisenhower, the investigation, interrogation and removal of gay men and lesbians from the federal government became policy
By Suyin Haynes and Video by Arpita Aneja
December 22, 2020
Family of NY Inmate Who Died After Pepper Spray Speak Out
"Momma's not stopping until that jail goes down," says Donna Mays, Jamel Floyd's mother
By Sanya Mansoor
October 13, 2020
Police Officer Charged With Murder of Unarmed Black Man
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), officer Shaun Lucas was responding to a disturbance call of a "possible fight in progress" outside a gas station in Wolfe City on Saturday night. When officer Lucas arrived he had a confrontation with 31-year-old Jonathan Price.
By Josiah Bates
October 6, 2020
Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Records Offer Rare Insight
An unnamed juror filed a motion on accusing the Kentucky Attorney General of using the grand jury to deflect from his own responsibility
By Josiah Bates
September 30, 2020
What Is Critical Race Theory?
Here's what you need to know
By Cady Lang
September 29, 2020
Activists Grapple With Grand Jury’s Breonna Taylor Verdict
Louisville activists say that people weren't surprised by the grand jury’s decision, but many were still devastated
By Josiah Bates
September 25, 2020
Grand Jury Brings No Charges Over Breonna Taylor’s Death
A grand jury charged one of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor—but only for his role shooting into neighboring apartments during the raid
By Josiah Bates
September 23, 2020
Rev. Al Sharpton Calls on Lawmakers to Act on Police Reform: 'The Time Has Come for Us to Go Back to Washington'
Civil rights icon Rev. Al Sharpton believes “the time has come for us to go back to Washington,” and on the 57th anniversary of the historic march when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his...
By Mariah Espada
August 27, 2020
Teen Charged After 2 Killed During Kenosha Protests
An Illinois teen has been arrested in Illinois in connection with the deaths of two people shot during protests in Kenosha, Wis. on Tuesday night. In recent days, demonstrators in the city have rallied against...
By Josiah Bates
August 26, 2020
Why Some States Waited Decades to Ratify the 19th Amendment
The delay did not affect women's right to vote, but it did send a message about just how recently such an idea remained controversial
By Suyin Haynes
August 17, 2020
N.C. Inmate Taken Off Death Row For Racism At Trial
Marcus Robinson, who proved in 2012 that racism affected his sentence, was re-sentenced to life
By Madeleine Carlisle
August 14, 2020
How Black Women Won the Right to Vote
The activism of Black women often predated that of famous white suffragists—and still informs debates over what history is worth remembering
By Olivia B. Waxman
August 14, 2020
How Viral Videos of Racist Incidents Are Changing Society
A new documentary from TIME examines the response to three viral videos and how they sparked racial justice protests
By Erica Solano and Alexandra Robson
August 4, 2020
Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, Dies
Rep. John Lewis, the longtime Georgia congressman and Civil Rights icon who was a protegé of Martin Luther King Jr., has died
By Alana Abramson
July 17, 2020
87 People Arrested During Breonna Taylor Protest Outside Kentucky Attorney General's Home
Eighty-seven people were arrested and each charged with a felony Tuesday after protesting outside the home of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to demand justice for the death of Breonna Taylor, the Louisville Metro Police...
By Madeleine Carlisle
July 15, 2020
The Long Legacy of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest died in 1877, yet the slave trader and Klan leader still haunts the American landscape
By Connor Towne O’Neill
July 13, 2020
Hate Crime Charge Sought After BLM Mural Vandalized
"The narrative of racism, it's a lie," the man said in an incident captured on video
By Katie Reilly
July 8, 2020
Noose Found in Johns Hopkins University Building
The school described the incident as a "possible hate crime"
By Madeleine Carlisle
July 4, 2020
Multiple Aurora Police Officers Placed on Administrative Leave Due to Photos Allegedly Taken Near Where Elijah McClain Died
Multiple police officers are under investigation after they were allegedly photographed near the site where Elijah McClain died
By Madeleine Carlisle
June 30, 2020
History and the Asian American Response to Black Lives Matter
America's racial reckoning has reignited conversations about anti-Blackness, privilege and solidarity within the Asian American community
By Cady Lang
June 26, 2020
The Unstoppable History of Pride Parades
“One way or another, we will have Pride, and we have to continue the fight”
By Suyin Haynes
June 26, 2020
The Standoff Over in Trump's Backyard
Demonstrations over racial justice have continued in dozens of cities across the nation for the past several weeks, but few protest sites have illustrated the dissonance between the Trump Administration and the Black Lives Matter...
By Lissandra Villa
June 23, 2020
Sherrilyn Ifill: Time For 'Transformative Change' in America
Sherrilyn Ifill, Director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), said that America has entered a period of protests and social reckoning akin to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. "We think...
By Josiah Bates
June 23, 2020
How Millions of Americans Observed Juneteenth
'Really hyper local celebrations are breaking out into the mainstream'
By Madeleine Carlisle
June 19, 2020
'It Was About Time.' Watch Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges Explain Why Recent Protests Give Her Hope
"It made me think about the day that I walked up those stairs when I integrated Frantz school"
By Madeleine Carlisle
June 19, 2020
Family of Black Man Killed by Indianapolis Police Officer File Lawsuit
The family of Dreasjon "Sean" Reed, the 21-year-old Black man who was killed by a police officer in Indianapolis in May, have filed a lawsuit against the department for using "excessive and deadly force" in...
By Josiah Bates
June 16, 2020
A Problem With the Focus on Whether George Floyd Protests are Nonviolent
Debates about the right way to protest are hundreds of years old—but, historians say, that focus can often obscure the real story of social change
By Olivia B. Waxman
June 11, 2020
N.C. Supreme Court Rules on Racial Justice Act Hearings
The ruling comes amid mass protests across the U.S. to demand an end to systemic racism
By Madeleine Carlisle
June 5, 2020
D.C. Protesters Say Trump Galvanizing Their Cause
If curfews and crackdowns were meant to lower protests' intensity, they’ve had the opposite effect
By Lissandra Villa and Brian Bennett
June 3, 2020
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