J.R. Clifford was many things, an activist, an educator, a journalist, a veteran and the first African-American lawyer in the ...

Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, during a period when racial segregation and discrimination were deeply entrenched in American society. Marshall’s early exposure to the ...

Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No ...

Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No ...

American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, ...

He said that if you talk to many African American lawyers in their age bracket, or even younger, they can go on “with common experience after common experience.” He said as a young lawyer ...

Dr. Hester Petty said three memorable experiences in her life involving discrimination always kept her motivated to fight for ...

Bowie State University, Maryland's oldest Historically Black College and University, got its start in Baltimore.

Americans, we saw him really lead," Carol Fulp, a former chief executive of The Partnership, said of Mr. Wiley's wide-ranging ...