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Teaneck man wants Brown vs. Board of Education case renamed for 'historical correctness'
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoTEANECK — For Nathaniel Briggs, education is a personal point of honor. The longtime township...
Chief Justice Roberts seemingly compares the Supreme Court's tumultuous year to Brown v. Board of...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChief Justice John Roberts compared this year to the aftermath of Brown v. Board of education.Andrew...
The Supreme Court's new "separate but equal" doctrine
Salon via Yahoo News· 11 months agoSCOTUS; Clarence Thomas; Thurgood MarshallPhoto illustration by Salon/Getty Images Last week, the...
Justice Henry Billings Brown and reasonableness in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 2 years agoYou will get a debate among legal pundits (I hesitate to call them scholars) on which was more...
Op-Ed: Dobbs isn't the first time the Supreme Court took away key rights
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Supreme Court's rollback of abortion rights echoes the court's 1883 decision to rule...
On This Day, May 18: Shooting at Santa Fe, Texas, high school kills 10
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoOn May 18, 2018, 10 people -- eight students and two teachers -- died after a fellow student opened...
Op-Ed: Ending Roe is a pure exercise of Republican power, wielded to reduce women's freedom and...
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRoe vs. Wade was overruled not because of anything about its reasoning, but because Donald Trump was...
The Supreme Court has lost my respect with its rulings this session | Opinion
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSince its establishment in 1789, the United States Supreme Court has dealt with various cases for...
Homer Plessy
Biography via Yahoo News· 7 months agoHomer PlessyBiography; Getty Images (silhouette, Supreme Court justices), Wikimedia Commons (railroad), National Archives and Records Administration...
Why the Court’s Civil Rights Hero Might Have Opposed Affirmative Action
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDuring a period of intense debate over affirmative action in 1987, Thurgood Marshall, the nation’s first Black Supreme Court justice, was called upon to defend one of his judicial heroes, John ...