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 ...

In 1833, a man named Dred Scott crossed a border. Scott didn’t traverse nations. Just a work trip, of sorts, from Missouri to Illinois. But as a slave in a pre-abolition (and rapidly fracturing) ...

Happy 150th to the late Dred Scott – or, at least, to the historic legal decision that kept him and his wife Harriet in slavery but enshrined them in U.S. history. Famously, Scott sued for his freedom ...

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The Dred Scott Supreme Court case (1857) is relevant today. The justices decided the states had the right to legalize slavery; thus, guaranteeing the constitutional right of slave owners in the ...

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 ...

There seem to be three camps of people in this country when it comes to reliving U.S. history: Those on the side of embracing our history — even when it’s discriminatory — remembering and teaching ...

THEBES, Ill. -- Hundreds of people gathered Tuesday in St. Louis to mark the 150th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case, which was heard in the Old Courthouse in downtown ...

Ferguson, Mo.: Monday night, a grand jury declined to indict Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson on Aug. 9. In advance of the ...

“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 ...