Maryland lawmakers introduced legislation this week to designate Thurgood Marshall’s former Baltimore elementary school as a National Historic Site. Congressman Kweisi Mfume, joined by Sens. Ben ...

The widow of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man to serve on the court, died Tuesday, according to a statement from the court. She was 94. Cecilia Suyat Marshall, who ...

As contractors completed the painstaking restoration of the public school attended by former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in West Baltimore, it’s time to consider the historic neighborhood ...

HILLBURN, N.Y. — When he was nine, Travis Jackson knew that his elementary school and the one on the other side of the village were different. The other school in Hillburn had a library, playground ...

The influential legacy of Thurgood Marshall, who served as the first Black associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967-1991, is in the spotlight once more as PBS premieres its new ...

Moments after learning she had just won a prestigious educators' award -- as well as a $25,000 prize -- a shocked Cassandra Baddeley burst into tears of joy. Several of her fifth-grade students at ...