Civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall is being introduced to a whole new generation through Marshall, a biopic starring Chadwick Boseman (out October 13). But long before Hollywood choose to share his ...

Marshall is known for breaking barriers in the fight against segregation and making history as the first Black U.S. Supreme ...

Thurgood Marshall became the first Black justice to be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court on this day in history, August 30, 1967. President Lyndon B. Johnson first appointed Marshall to the ...

Host Michel Martin talks with actor Laurence Fishburne and playwright George Stevens, Jr. about Thurgood, a one-man play about the life of civil rights icon and pioneering African-American Supreme ...

Thurgood Marshall at times showed his courage and sense of humor all at once while serving as an attorney for clients in the segregated South, where many had gotten used to being mistreated by the ...

Chadwick Boseman, Sterling K. Brown, and Josh Gad star in ‘Marshall.’ Press photo Marshall, a both enjoyable and educational film about African American pioneer Thurgood Marshall, stars Chadwick ...

Attorney Michael Koskoff is being courted by Hollywood. The 74-year-old litigator is a first-time screenwriter with “Marshall,” a new film about the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, out ...

Whenever a Supreme Court seat must be filled, we’re confronted with a fundamental battle over the meaning of the Constitution: Is it a living document, or can it only be plumbed for the founders’ ...

The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress. By Nikole Hannah-Jones How the landmark 1978 Supreme Court decision that upheld the practice may ultimately ...

FILE - Cecilia Marshall, widow of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, laughs while watching a slide show about her husband during a meeting to rally support for renaming Baltimore-Washington ...

Discover free programs for all ages at Edgewater Public Library this August! Enjoy performances, presentations, crafting, and ...