Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman chosen to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer, called leaving the DOJ 'a ...

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, UNL is hosting a series of events on Jan. 28 featuring the president and CEO of the ...

Southeast Texas Stages (formerly known as Beaumont Community Players) will present a world premiere of the new play “Thurgood and Me”.The show is about Thurgood ...

One of its former students, Justice Thurgood Marshall--an American civil rights icon and the U.S. Supreme Court's first African American justice. Marshall was a student at the school from 1914 to ...

The larger point about those civil rights–era judges, who we now think of as champions, is that they were in the small ...

When Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated on Monday, Jan. 20, those who attended an annual program on Friday afternoon will have a lot to think about. The event, entitled “Martin Luther King Jr.

As best as Brennan could tell, Marshall had simply given up, convinced that all he had worked for as a civil rights lawyer was now coming undone.… [p. 431 (emphasis added)] Brennan did resent ...

named Thurgood Marshall to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, and supported voter registration drives. But such an approach was problematic. By not addressing civil rights publicly ...

was seen by many historians as helping set the foundation for legal civil rights challenges across the country. Houston, who mentored and taught future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall ...

For his part, civil rights leader Thurgood Marshall called the Nation of Islam "a bunch of thugs organized from prisons and jails and financed, I am sure, by some Arab group." King himself took ...