In 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement. (His departure led to the contentious nomination of Clarence ...

The influential legacy of Thurgood Marshall, who served as the first Black associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967-1991, is in the spotlight once more as PBS premieres its new ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer falsely claimed Thursday that the Supreme Court was made up of "all White men" until 1981, skipping over the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, who was appointed by ...

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has come under an unusual line of attack from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senators are going after Kagan's 1988 clerkship for former Supreme ...

Much of the country has extolled the triumph of this nation getting its first Black woman on the United States Supreme Court. As it should. But the beauty of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation ...

Cecilia "Cissy" Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice and civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall, died on Tuesday at age 94, the court's public information office announced. Like her ...