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 ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS – FOX 2 continues its honoring of the Black History Series, reflecting on the stories of those who shaped the nation’s history. Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott, is ...

A rendering of the new memorial to Dred Scott that the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation is raising funds to erect in Calvary Cemetery The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation now has a rendering of the new ...

The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...

The controversial Dred Scott case of 1857 is considered a hallmark in the question of slavery in the United States. Few realize that Scott once lived at Fort Snelling in St. Paul in present-day ...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who President Biden nominated to the Supreme Court to become the first ever Black female justice, admitted Tuesday that she could not recall the basis for the infamous ...

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 ...

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