Thurgood Marshall

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November 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights activist and law professor Sherrilyn Ifill has been named the President and Director-Counsel of the…
January 24, 2012
VIDEO - Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and its first African-American justice...
January 16, 2012
SLIDESHOW - In this list of 25 people who paved the way for MLK there are familiar and unfamiliar names…
January 17, 2011
SURVEY - TheGrio assembled a group of 25 contemporary academics, artists and activists to assess the most influential black leaders…
August 5, 2010
OPINION - On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court...
July 1, 2010
After decades of devotion, Michael Steele leads Republicans on the Senate judiciary committee as they turn the civil rights icon…
June 29, 2010
After attacking Thurgood Marshall at Kagan hearings, Republicans can't give examples of his work...
June 29, 2010
OPINION - Their goal remains to bully, cow, and badger her to insure that she toes the line not solely…
June 28, 2010
OPINION - Byrd renounced his racist past, demonstrating that people have the power to change and move beyond hate...
June 14, 2010
The real message of "Thurgood" is a celebration of courage -- something Obama may look to as inspiration during a…
June 8, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Elena Kagan has spoken often of her admiration for the justice, calling him "the most important --…
May 26, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - As a young lawyer working for Justice Thurgood Marshall, Elena Kagan repeatedly expressed her concern that a…
May 18, 2010
SLIDESHOW - In nominating Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens, President Obama has chosen a brilliant legal scholar with…
May 11, 2010
OPINION - Clearly she is no bold visionary. Like the president who nominated her, she's a technocrat who appears to…
May 10, 2010
In its first memo to reporters since Kagan's nomination to the high court became public, the RNC highlighted Kagan's tribute…
April 26, 2010
Johnny C. Taylor, an established entrepreneur, lawyer, HR executive and author, was selected to lead the Thurgood Marshall College Fund...