Racial segregation in public schools and the controversial concept of "separate but equal" were unanimously declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court on this day in history, May 17, ...

On Nov. 17, 1950, Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP’s chief counsel, met with federal Judge J. Waties Waring in the judge’s chambers in Charleston, S.C., to discuss a lawsuit filed on behalf of Black ...

Thurgood Marshall was the first Black justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was instrumental in shaping American civil rights, arguing and winning the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ...

It has been almost 70 years since the seminal Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision crumbled the legal wall of separation between Black and White students in public schools, and served as ...

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 ...

Much of the country has extolled the triumph of this nation getting its first Black woman on the United States Supreme Court. As it should. But the beauty of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation ...

In a representative democracy, no one should hold so much power for so long. By Jesse Wegman The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress. By Nikole Hannah ...

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 ...