Letter writers discuss collective bargaining in Hampton Roads, fighting back against Donald Trumps’ actions, and senior citizens facing higher costs.

The state forged several firsts in racial equality and equal justice, but state laws now target all things diverse, writes ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

That sentence overturned Dred Scott, the 1857 Supreme Court decision that affirmed slavery and helped prompt the Civil War. That history has heft, said Mr. Dellinger, who died in 2022 after a long ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to curtail automatic birthright citizenship as part of his hardline immigration ...

In the first—but surely not the last—court order temporarily blocking President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, Reagan-appointed Judge John Coughenour said he could ...

President Donald Trump’s administration says it’s appealing a Maryland federal judge’s ruling that blocks the president’s ...

The 14th Amendment makes clear that no politician can ever decide who among those born in our country is worthy of ...

Then, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, in 1856, the Supreme Court held that enslaved individuals are property of their owners and that they are not United States citizens, even if they had been born in ...

The saga begins before the Civil War with the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in 1857, which denied citizenship to people of African descent even if they were not enslaved.

An online resource offers itineraries for visiting Missouri historic sites tied to Scott Joplin, Dred Scott, jazz history, ...