The president & CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) was recently inducted into the National Black College Alumni ...

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 ...

FILE - Cecilia Marshall, widow of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, laughs while watching a slide show about her husband during a meeting to rally support for renaming Baltimore-Washington ...

COLUMBIA, Tenn. (WKRN) — The City of Columbia was gifted a statue of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, which now stands tall just off the main square downtown. The Columbia Peace and Justice ...

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 ...

Before he became the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was already a powerful civil rights pioneer: He argued 32 cases in front of the Supreme Court in his work as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On August 30, 1967, the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.

According to Georgetown University law professor Sheryll D. Cashin, Thurgood Marshall “was the only Supreme Court justice in the history of the court who was more famous for what he did before rising ...

Standing inside the surprisingly well preserved center hall of the Baltimore City public school built in 1877 and discussing its renovation, Rev. Al Hathaway looked relieved when he said, “And ...

On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall became a Supreme Court justice, the first African American to serve on the high court.