Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet Robinson Scott thought they had a chance at freedom. They lived in Missouri ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1833, a man named Dred Scott crossed a border. Scott didn’t traverse nations. Just a work trip, of sorts, from Missouri to ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Henry Geyer, who was elected by the Missouri Legislature to replace U.S. Sen. Thomas Hart Benton over the issue of slavery. Geyer ...

In ordinary times, someone could read the Supreme Court’s decision on the legality of so-called “universal injunctions” as just the latest example of an old dispute: the proper way to interpret the ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — St. Louis County Parks and Recreation is hosting a compelling traveling exhibit on slavery this weekend. On Saturday, groups delved deep into Black history at the North County ...

The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...