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An inmate looks out of the window of the Young Offenders Institution in Norwich, England.

Social Justice

Is San Diego County Failing Its Most Vulnerable Inmate Population?

A disability rights organization and private lawsuits allege negligence among San Diego County staff and officials toward inmates with mental illnesses. The county says otherwise.

Ashley Hackett

Hundreds of immigrant rights advocates and others participate in a rally at the Federal Building in lower Manhattan against the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy on June 1st, 2018.

Social Justice

The Immigration Stories You Should Be Watching

#WhereAreTheChildren has been making headlines, but there's much more going on.

Ashley Hackett

Paul Robeson listens to a speech during the Peace Partisans World Congress in Moscow on April 20th, 1949. Robeson lost his passport in 1950.

Social Justice

The Long, Defiant History of Activism Among Black Athletes

Journalist Howard Bryant's new book looks at how black athletes have historically ignored the mandate to "shut up and play."

Brandon Tensley

Social Justice

How ‘Colony’ Dramatizes Possibilities for Resisting Fascism

Can science fiction help American viewers to empathize with occupied peoples?

David M. Perry

Social Justice

Uncovering Disparities in Policing by Analyzing Traffic Stop Data

A conversation with professor Frank Baumgartner, who led a research team that analyzed every North Carolina police stop since 2002.

Tanvi Misra

Social Justice

The Shocking Legacy of America’s Worst Modern-Day Lynching

Twenty years after the brutal, racially motivated murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas, some residents are trying to scrub the crime—and the bigotry behind it—from the town's history.

John Savage

Kim Kardashian poses with President Donald Trump at the White House.

Social Justice

Trump Commutes the Life Sentence of the First-Time Drug Offender Backed by Kim Kardashian

President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, who has already served 21 years of a life sentence for charges of cocaine possession and money laundering.

Francie Diep

Demonstrators protest Trump administration policy that enables federal agents to separate undocumented migrant children from their parents at the border on June 5th, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.

Social Justice

U.S. Border Stations Are Now Overflowing With Migrant Children

Customs and Border Protection agents are running out of space to shelter the hundreds of migrant children who have been separated from their parents at the United States border as part of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy.

Ashley Hackett

Hundreds of people attend an evening rally at Washington Square Park in support of Muslims and immigrants and against the building of a wall along the Mexican border on January 25th, 2017, in New York City.

Social Justice

Muslim Americans Are Perplexed by News of a White House Ramadan Dinner

Muslim-American leaders are suspicious of an administration that they say is hostile to their communities at home and abroad.

Massoud Hayoun

A long line of asylum seekers wait to illegally cross the Canada/U.S. border.

Social Justice

As Asylum Seekers Head to Canada, Concerns Among the Local Indigenous Population Grow

An influx of refugees into Manitoba has raised concern among indigenous Canadians about how limited governmental resources will be distributed between the groups.

Rose Gilbert