An African proverb says, “Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero.” On Sept. 23, more than 200 people from across the state and New England braved the cold, drenching rain ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson visited the International African American Museum on Sept. 1, just weeks before the nation’s highest court's new term.

February is Black History Month. This month we take the opportunity to celebrate the life and legacy of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American on the United States Supreme Court. Associate ...

The two Black justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson, couldn’t have been more apart in their thinking on Thursday’s historic Affirmative Action rulings, and they ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- John Charles Thomas has a love for language, using his words to woo and inspire others. Thomas, who is the first African American justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Virginia, has ...

The Supreme Court of North Carolina unveiled the portrait of retired Associate Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson, the first African American woman to serve in the state’s highest court and the current ...

When Sarah E. Lewis ’01 first encountered Harvard as an undergraduate concentrating in Social Studies and History of Art and Architecture, she noticed something was missing. “No one was teaching the ...

In these ‘first-voice’ museums, curators and leaders are part of the community the museum interprets. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, features 800 steel slabs, ...

WASHINGTON − Thurgood Marshall's clock. Clarence Gideon's petition. Lucy's portrait. To understand Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, look at what she has chosen to display around her. The first Black ...