Saturday, Freddie Gray died from spinal injuries sustained during transport in a Baltimore police van and the city was thrust into a national debate over police brutality against Black Americans ...

It was almost instinctual for Ray Kelly to jump into action when he heard about a group of high school students clashing with ...

Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice ...

Before its mid-1970s demolition for a road-widening project that razed several Black-owned properties ... eventual U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall In a first for Charlottesville ...

Washington Middle School was officially renamed Octavia E. Butler Magnet in 2022. The renaming honors Octavia E. Butler, a ...

Enter Richard D. Kahlenberg, who has been arguing for virtually his entire adult life that our race-based system of affirmative action pits the white working class against Black people ...

Employing a tactic that Thurgood Marshall had urged fellow Black lawyers to use in the face of bigoted comments, Motley deflected the insult and pushed back with cool professionalism. She answered ...

Catch up quick: Part of the Congressional Black ... correcting history," Justin Hansford, a professor at Howard University's School of Law and executive director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil ...

Fishburne was nominated for a Tony Award for the one-man play in which he portrayed civil rights attorney and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. I learned a lot about the history of our ...