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 ...

Dred Scott and Harriet Scott wood engravings after photographs by John H. Fitzgibbon, St. Louis, Mo. (Wikimedia) “Our word isn’t racism. It’s relationship.” Those are the words of Lynne Jackson, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keynote speaker Lynne M. Jackson, president and founder of The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, presents at RootsTech in Salt Lake ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Dred Scott case, which had a direct impact on the coming of ...

A statue recognizing the major historic role played by Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, will be unveiled on Friday, June 8 at the Old Courthouse, the site where the couple petitioned in 1846 for ...

U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Photo Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM Justice Clarence Thomas, in his most recent concurring opinion, again raises the issue of whether “substantive due process” ...

A family member of the chief justice who presided over the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision has apologized to the family of the slave who tried to sue for his freedom. On Monday, the 160-year ...

Your donation fuels local reporting and heats a home through the Warmth Support Program. Dred Scott died of tuberculosis in 1858, the year after the court decision that bears his name. Wikimedia ...

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 ...

A Harvard University symposium will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will join dozens of other legal experts who will revisit the case ...