Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to reporters outside of Primanti Bros. Restaurant on ...

There seem to be three camps of people in this country when it comes to reliving U.S. history: I asked myself this question when Atlanta defense attorney and pundit Andrew Fleischman raised the ...

I believe in embracing our history. Even when it’s discriminatory I believe we should learn from history, remember it and teach from it. Our history happened. Slavery happened. Japanese incarceration ...

Exactly 151 years ago on April 14, 1873, the U.S. Supreme Court in its Slaughterhouse Cases decision strengthened the premise of the notorious 1857 Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford case. As you might ...

The controversial Dred Scott case of 1857 is considered a hallmark in the history of slavery in the United States. Few realize that the man behind the case once lived in the Quad-Cities. The Supreme ...

In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United ...

The name Dred Scott is synonymous with the struggle for freedom. Now, 165 years after the Supreme Court case that bears his name, Scott’s gravesite is a memorial befitting that legacy. NewsHour ...

“We should all be embarrassed by the existence of anyone reaching back to the history of slavery and coming up with the Dred Scott decision and dragging it into the conversation,” Dr. Mary Frances ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There seem to be three camps of people in this country when it comes to reliving U.S. history: Those on the side of embracing our ...

A Republican national organization shockingly and inaccurately argued that Vice President Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for president, citing a slavery-era Supreme Court decision that ruled Black ...