Civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall is being introduced to a whole new generation through Marshall, a biopic starring Chadwick Boseman (out October 13). But long before Hollywood choose to share his ...

Marshall is known for breaking barriers in the fight against segregation and making history as the first Black U.S. Supreme ...

Thurgood Marshall became the first Black justice to be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court on this day in history, August 30, 1967. President Lyndon B. Johnson first appointed Marshall to the ...

Host Michel Martin talks with actor Laurence Fishburne and playwright George Stevens, Jr. about Thurgood, a one-man play about the life of civil rights icon and pioneering African-American Supreme ...

Attorney Michael Koskoff is being courted by Hollywood. The 74-year-old litigator is a first-time screenwriter with “Marshall,” a new film about the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, out ...

Thurgood Marshall at times showed his courage and sense of humor all at once while serving as an attorney for clients in the segregated South, where many had gotten used to being mistreated by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thurgood Marshall, left, had a very different view of the purpose of the Supreme Court than his successor, Clarence Thomas. U.S.

Whenever a Supreme Court seat must be filled, we’re confronted with a fundamental battle over the meaning of the Constitution: Is it a living document, or can it only be plumbed for the founders’ ...

The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress. By Nikole Hannah-Jones How the landmark 1978 Supreme Court decision that upheld the practice may ultimately ...

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 ...