Valerie Castile lost her son, Philando, at a traffic stop gone horribly wrong. She is determined that his life will not be ...

In her quest to commemorate her great-great grandfather Dred Scott — the plaintiff in the infamous Supreme Court case that denied freedom to black slaves — Lynne Jackson set out ...

The Dred Scott challenge isn't a difficult but rewarding game that ingenious scholars should have an interest in overcoming. It's an invitation to rewrite constitutional text and history in ...

The Scott's case went to the Supreme Court in 1856, where justices ruled that Black people were not citizens and could not sue in court. The Scotts were eventually freed, but Dred Scott died of ...

So, during the election of 1860, Lincoln argued that Dred Scott was not binding on the country because it was not settled precedent. He acknowledged, though, that the court’s decisions are ...

Dred Scott’s statue, which stands in front of the Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis, symbolizes a major turning point in the fight against slavery.

Dred Scott is widely regarded as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. It’s so bad, I wish we called it something else, as to not disparage the Black man whose name it uses.

Dred Scott is widely regarded as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. It’s so bad, I wish we called it something else, as to not disparage the Black man whose name it uses.