Thurgood Marshall smiles as he sits in a Supreme Court Building office following ceremony at which Marshall was sworn in as the High Court's newest justice in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 1, 1967. As ...
Last week, my heart sank as I listened to the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over yet another attempt to gut what’s left of the Voting Rights Act. It was a law designed to protect the electoral power ...
February is Black History Month. This month we take the opportunity to celebrate the life and legacy of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American on the United States Supreme Court. Associate ...
Today on Due South, a conversation with Ted Shaw, a law professor and director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights who once led the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and argued cases in front of the Supreme ...
1908: Thurgood Marshall was born July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, MD. 1930: Marshall graduated from Lincoln University in 1930, then obtained his law degree from Howard University Law School in 1933. He ...
The influential legacy of Thurgood Marshall, who served as the first Black associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967-1991, is in the spotlight once more as PBS premieres its new ...
The second day of the confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court was marked by some substantive dialogue, respectful banter and even an exchange of ethnic humor between the nominee ...
The author, now a Bronx Family Court judge, reflects on their childhood marked by systemic injustice, inspired by Justice Thurgood Marshall’s ruling in Bounds v. Smith that expanded prison legal ...
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