It was 1995 when Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott, heard a prompting from God. “You should study Dred Scott,” Jackson recalled hearing. “And I said out loud ‘Yeah ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . Brazenly, in Citizens United, the court employed parallel logic to the syllogism embedded in the most repugnant ruling it ever made, the 1857 Dred ...

According to Chaz Harris, one of the men who utilizes the center's resources, what the center offers Black men like him is ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Writer and actor Kate Taney Billingsley has been thinking a lot about America’s racial history and her family’s part in it. One of her ancestors had an outsized role. Billingsley’s ...

ST. LOUIS -- On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court denied slave Dred Scott his freedom, a decision that helped push a nation inflamed over slavery closer to Civil War. Throughout St. Louis, events ...

A descendant of the couple who sued in the Dred Scott decision spoke to attendees at a Black history event in St. Louis about her family's lawsuit for their freedom. A descendant of Dred and Harriet ...

“We should all be embarrassed by the existence of anyone reaching back to the history of slavery and coming up with the Dred Scott decision and dragging it into the conversation,” Dr. Mary Frances ...

One of American history’s most influential and iconic civil rights pioneers – Dred Scott – is among the 2020 inductees to the Missouri Public Affairs Hall of Fame, which is curated by Missouri State ...

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