Dred Scott vs. Sandford is one of the most famous and important legal battles in the history of the United States. Dred Scott and his wife Harriett were enslaved people who sued for their freedom, and ...

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The Alabama House of Representatives Tuesday approved a bill that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for those ...

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The state of Missouri celebrated a milestone rooted in a dream Friday afternoon inside the Coronado Ballroom. That dream was inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but it belonged to the late Norman ...

More than 5,000 people gathered at the University of Rhode Island on Oct. 5, 1966, to hear the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

By GARY L. BLEDSOE Texas NAACP Attorney General Opinion 0505 is an affront to the decency, justice and humanity that Dr.