While John Lewis’ body lies in state in the rotunda of the United States Capitol, Nashville’s Fisk University announced that its recently launched institute for social justice would be named after the ...

Concepts and quests for justice, and struggles against injustice, have shaped human understanding and community relationships for centuries. Probing broad questions, our signature course, Social ...

The Social Justice Institute's R & R (Research and Refreshment) lecture series will return to explore what it means to engage in social justice-related research. These talks feature campus and ...

The TYJI held a press conference to kick off an in-depth assessment of the state’s juvenile justice system. At about the time that Kelly Orts ’15, ’17 M.S. was graduating from the University of New ...

The University of California at Berkeley’s decision to disband a prominent institute devoted to the study of racial and social injustice is drawing anger from faculty and staff members and alumni of ...

The University of California-Irvine School of Law has launched a Civil Justice Research Institute to explore how to make the U.S. civil justice system more accessible. UCI Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky ...

The University community proudly celebrated the excellence of 11 faculty members at the annual Faculty Excellence Awards, recognizing their dedication to their students, their educational journeys, ...

It’s a story that reflects our country’s painful past. In 1838, Georgetown Jesuit priests sold 272 slaves to help keep the university alive. As the university comes to terms with its racial history, ...

Alexandro Gradilla, associate professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at Cal State Fullerton, wants to empower his students to become engaged citizens and social justice leaders. The Social Justice ...

In the Lehigh Valley, many first-time offenders charged with misdemeanors are placed in county jail under cash bail and are unable to come up with the money to be released. Many of these defendants ...