We assume that victims will find closure when the people who hurt them are imprisoned. But many say that to heal, they need something else entirely.

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

The way to a stronger democracy starts with reforming our massive criminal justice system.

An uptick in homicides across the country is getting blamed on reforms. That argument gets the data all wrong.

The Biden administration is investigating the Minneapolis Police Department, but history shows that the government’s power to rein in cop culture is limited.

Representative Grace Meng of New York wants to curb anti-Asian racism, but activists for defunding the police say her bill won’t solve anything.

Convicting a police officer of murder or creating more oversight won’t stop the killing

A turn toward nationalism following the MAGA storm on D.C. erases the Black radical tradition of rebellion—and endangers its future.

“Defund the police” is not an austerity measure. It’s a demand that we put police department budgets to better use.

How the pandemic put a grotesque new face on the political normalization of brutality.

Jacob Blake was critically injured when cops shot him in the back on Sunday. Six years ago, a new law was supposed to bring change.

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader

Protest encampments across the country are forcing questions about housing, public space, and who our neighborhoods are really for.

As abolitionist frameworks enter the mainstream, addressing gendered and sexual violence is treated like a conceptual trap. It’s not.

On peaceful protest, “outside agitators,” and the radical agency of the oppressed

Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. One of them sued successfully.

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.

How the former slave and abolitionist became the most photographed man in America.

And they should embrace the idea of celebrating the country's reunion