This half hour documentary explores the life of Franklin Williams that includes archival, Oval Office audio of President Lyndon Johnson and then-Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall discussing ...

For each day of Black History Month, the office of U.S. Rep. John K. Delaney (D-6) is posting to his FaceBook page a profile of a different African-American leader from Maryland. Delaney’s ...

On the fifth anniversary of his murder by policeman Derek Chauvin, it is time to consider what has changed since.

Whittington had met President Lyndon B. Johnson ... Bettmann//Getty Images President Johnson and Judge Thurgood Marshall, 1965. In a twist of fate that seems almost scripted, Whittington and ...

As Lyndon Johnson put it in a message to Congress ... After the decision came down, in 1954, Thurgood Marshall, who had argued the case before the Court, predicted that public schools would ...

Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore ... In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court, making him the first African American justice in the Court ...

That hubris was on full display when Lyndon Johnson eyed the high court months ... replacing Clark with Thurgood Marshall created a 6-3 liberal bloc capable of perpetuating the Warren Court ...

Over 200 people crowded into the newly built Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center for ... Marshall was appointed by then U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and served 23 years. Among the attendees ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The Supreme Court justice’s vision is betrayed daily in an America in which schools remain separate and unequal.

Thurgood Marshall was not happy ... Court and won 29 of them — an unparalleled record that President Lyndon Johnson touted when he nominated him to the Court in 1967. That’s when Marshall ...

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum ... and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Success at last! But April 11? How was it possible for a bill languishing in the Rules Committee ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Just more than half a century ago, Thurgood Marshall, whom I later had the privilege of ...