Tag: Brown V. Board of Education
If the Supreme Court Ends Abortion Rights, Black Women Will Be the Ones Most...
By Barrington M. Salmon via Trice Edney Newswire
As the implications of the impending death of Roe v Wade sinks in a week after a...
Autherine Lucy Foster, A Critical Figure in the Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 92
Autherine Foster “was the embodiment of courage,” said Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, who chairs the organization. “As the first Black student to attend the...
Critical race theory: What it is and what it isn’
By David Miguel Gray, University of Memphis
U.S. Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana sent a letter to fellow Republicans on June 24, 2021, stating: “As...
The Supreme Court has overturned precedent dozens of times in the past 60 years,...
By David Schultz, Hamline University
It is a central principle of law: Courts are supposed to follow earlier decisions – precedent – to resolve...
Black man behind ‘separate but equal’ ruling is pardoned
By Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press
Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad...
