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The Supreme Court's new "separate but equal" doctrine
Salon via Yahoo News· 12 months agoSCOTUS; Clarence Thomas; Thurgood MarshallPhoto illustration by Salon/Getty Images Last week, the...
Seventy years after Brown v. Board ruling, school segregation persists in Fort Worth
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 month agoSeventy years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended legal school segregation in America,...
Everything you know about Brown v. Board of Education is wrong
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 month agoDemonstrators picket in front of a school board office protesting segregation of students. (Photo by...
Homer Plessy
Biography via Yahoo News· 7 months agoHomer PlessyBiography; Getty Images (silhouette, Supreme Court justices), Wikimedia Commons (railroad), National Archives and Records Administration...
Opinion: America vowed to desegregate its schools. This is what happened instead
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoEditor’s Note: Keith Magee is senior fellow and visiting professor in cultural justice at University...
White people aren't being discriminated against. Groups trying to keep Black people down.
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoRay Marcano, a longtime journalist, is the former national president of the Society of Professional...
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 ...
Key takeaways as a Delaware panel marks 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 month agoMost people understand the Brown v. Board of Education decision as one of the most definitive cases...
As some try to rename Supreme Court case, Topeka looks to cement Brown v. Board legacy with art
The Topeka Capital-Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s not that Cheryl Brown Henderson agrees or disagrees with a South Carolina effort to rename the seminal U.S. Supreme Court case named after plaintiff Oliver Brown. As a matter of fact, she ...
Abcarian: On affirmative action, Justice Jackson blasts her colleagues' 'let-them-eat-cake...
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 12 months agoSupreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of two nonwhite women on the bench who dissented...