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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

“They can do same thing that Abraham Lincoln did about the Dred Scott decision of 1857,” Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, said, speaking of what conservatives might do about Obergefell ...

Dred Scott, an enslaved man who lost his bid for freedom, will be honored with a new memorial monument at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis on Saturday. In 1846, Scott and his wife, Harriet, filed their ...

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 ...