Harvard Law Professor Mark Tushnet, who once clerked for Marshall and chronicled his career in two books, reflects on how today’s justices have strayed from his example.

Thurgood Marshall smiles as he sits in a Supreme Court Building office following ceremony at which Marshall was sworn in as the High Court's newest justice in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 1, 1967. As ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — This weekend, Baltimore pays tribute to a towering figure in American history: Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Justice appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The ...

February is Black History Month. This month we take the opportunity to celebrate the life and legacy of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American on the United States Supreme Court. Associate ...

Today on Due South, a conversation with Ted Shaw, a law professor and director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights who once led the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and argued cases in front of the Supreme ...

WASHINGTON (WHSV) - Nearly 60 years ago on Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. In the ‘40s and ‘50s, Marshall was the chief counsel for ...

1908: Thurgood Marshall was born July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, MD. 1930: Marshall graduated from Lincoln University in 1930, then obtained his law degree from Howard University Law School in 1933. He ...

The influential legacy of Thurgood Marshall, who served as the first Black associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967-1991, is in the spotlight once more as PBS premieres its new ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1967, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court, making him the first Black justice. Marshall was a civil rights lawyer who used the ...

On September 9, PBS will debut a powerful new documentary honoring one of the most transformative legal minds in American history. Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect explores the life, ...

Fresh from winning the New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton ignited a political firestorm over who did the most to bring down the ignominious edifice of segregation. In that now infamous interview ...

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s recent media appearances have proven illuminating, perhaps not in the way she means them to. Barrett’s conversations with the usual outlets served the general ...