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 ...

Laura Kadetsky's arrival at the Legal Defense Fund bolsters its leadership firepower at a time the Trump administration is ...

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 ...

A former law clerk for the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall offers a rare glimpse into the life and legacy of the first African-American to sit on the nation's highest court in a new Fox ...

"He's one of our country's greatest heroes because he's a fighter for justice," director Reginald Hudlin says of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall Writer-Reporter, PEOPLE When Academy Awards ...

*Maryland Public Television (MPT) has announced the upcoming documentary, “Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect,” which is set to explore the remarkable life of Thurgood Marshall, the first ...

Legislation led by Maryland lawmakers, aimed at preserving a significant part of Baltimore history, could help the elementary school of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall receive designation as a ...

WEBVTT STATE AND COUNTRY.ANDRE: MENTAL IN HAVING THISMADE.IN 1980 THE UNIVERSITY OFMARYLAND LAW SCHOOL SALUTED THENATION'S FIRST BLACK U.S.SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, WITH THE,THURGOOD MARSHAL LAW ...

Thurgood Marshall was not the best choice for the open seat on the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in the fall of 1961. At least that's what many Southern white attorneys stated when the FBI ...

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’ ...

IN FUTURE GENERATIONS. YOU ARE IN THE BUILDING, WHICH WAS THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. HE WENT THERE FROM 1914 UNTIL 1921. AND SO WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT HE SAW ON DIVISION STREET ...