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Civil rights experts say replacing Roger Taney statue with Thurgood Marshall's is overdue
Yahoo News· 2 years agoLast week, Congress passed legislation to remove from the Capitol the bust of Supreme Court Chief...
Justice Thurgood Marshall's wife 'Cissy' Marshall dies at 94
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall who...
Today in History: August 30, Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first Black Supreme Court justice
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoOn Aug. 30, 2021, the United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war with the Taliban back in power, as Air Force transport planes carried a remaining ...
Colleges, police blame ‘outside agitators’ for campus protests. Experts say it’s not so simple
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAs the dust settles and the number of pro-Palestinian student encampments dwindle, claims of...
16 Lesser-Known Quotes From Influential Civil Rights Leaders
HuffPost Life via Yahoo News· 6 months agoFrom left: Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis. At a time when...
The cast of ‘A Different World’ launch HBCU tour to fund scholarships and boost enrollment
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAfter 35 years, the cast of “A Different World” is reuniting on a tour of historically Black...
Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman On The Supreme Court, Dies
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died at age 93, the court...
Where the Supreme Court stands on banning books
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 7 months agoCurrent precedent relies on a 1982 case in which five justices generally agreed there were limits on a school's power to ban books, but they didn't agree...
In DeSantis rebuke, 2 major Black orgs move their conferences — and millions in revenue — out of...
Yahoo News· 11 months agoTwo months after the NAACP issued a formal travel advisory for Florida, two major Black...
For MLK Day, a tour of the Lorraine Motel evokes anger — but also pride for every gain won in civil...
Yahoo Sports· 1 year agoMEMPHIS, Tenn. — “It’s OK if you cry.” That was the text message relayed by Andscape’s Marc Spears...