After years of advocacy from residents, Philadelphia will rename a street that's currently named for controversial Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney, who authored one of the most infamous opinions in ...

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has released new research on Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved couple who sued for their freedom. The Scott's case went to the Supreme Court in 1856, where ...

ST. LOUIS – FOX 2 continues its honoring of the Black History Series, reflecting on the stories of those who shaped the ...

ST. LOUIS — A beloved piece of St. Louis history has reopened its doors. The Old Courthouse, a cornerstone of downtown and a key site in the nation’s civil rights movement, welcomed visitors back on ...

ST. LOUIS — The site of a historic court decision that fanned the flames of racial injustice leading up to the American Civil War has been restored for only the second time in its history. Renovations ...

I'm a very competitive person by nature, and I like a good challenge. That's a big reason why I play video games, and why I particularly enjoy games by FromSoftware, the powerhouse developer behind ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ST. LOUIS • America's only bronze figure of Dred and Harriet Scott rests atop a black granite base outside the Old Courthouse ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column that included a brief discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the 1857 case that both invalidated the Missouri Compromise and closed the ...

For the first time in over a century, children will soon be born in the United States without the benefit of birthright citizenship, thanks to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. Although ...

Neighbour's thoughtful but inert debut novel, a fictionalized biography of Dred Scott, depicts the slave whose suit for freedom was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857, a legal and political ...

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