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, ...

I believe in embracing our history. Even when it’s discriminatory I believe we should learn from history, remember it and teach from it. Our history happened. Slavery happened. Japanese incarceration ...

There seem to be three camps of people in this country when it comes to reliving U.S. history: I asked myself this question when Atlanta defense attorney and pundit Andrew Fleischman raised the ...

A Republican national organization shockingly and inaccurately argued that Vice President Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for president, citing a slavery-era Supreme Court decision that ruled Black ...

ST. LOUIS -- On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court denied slave Dred Scott his freedom, a decision that helped push a nation inflamed over slavery closer to Civil War. Throughout St. Louis, events ...

Lynne Jackson, right, great great granddaughter of Dred Scott, hugs Charles Taney III, a descendant of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, after their reconciliation. On left, is Charles ...

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a Get Out the Vote Rally on March 2 in Richmond, Va. Steve Beckett Former President Donald Trump speaks during a Get Out the Vote Rally on March 2 in ...

Believe it or not, the National Federation of Republican Assemblies is arguing in 2024 that Nikki Haley, Vice President Harris and Vivek Ramaswamy aren’t eligible for the White House. USA Today ...