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 ...

Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to reporters outside of Primanti Bros. Restaurant on Aug. 18, 2024, in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Anna ...

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, ...

I believe in embracing our history. Even when it’s discriminatory I believe we should learn from history, remember it and teach from it. Our history happened. Slavery happened. Japanese incarceration ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — 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 ...

WASHINGTON — The bust of Roger Taney, the Maryland-born justice who wrote the notorious 1857 Dred Scott decision ruling African Americans were not citizens, has been removed from the United States ...

Exactly 151 years ago on April 14, 1873, the U.S. Supreme Court in its Slaughterhouse Cases decision strengthened the premise of the notorious 1857 Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford case. As you might ...

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 ...

The name Dred Scott is synonymous with the struggle for freedom. Now, 165 years after the Supreme Court case that bears his name, Scott’s gravesite is a memorial befitting that legacy. NewsHour ...

When President Joe Biden gives his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday night, a bust of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney will be missing. Taney’s sculpture was ...

ST. LOUIS — There's a new memorial at Dred Scott's gravesite in St. Louis, built to be a more fitting remembrance of the man who changed U.S. history. Minister Brenda Young, with the Dred Scott ...

The name Dred Scott is synonymous with the struggle for freedom. Now, 165 years after the Supreme Court case that bears his name, Scott’s gravesite is a memorial befitting that legacy. NewsHour ...