Attorney Jack Greenberg, a protege of and successor to Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the last lawyer to have argued Brown v. Board of Education, has died at 91.

Historically Black Colleges are great institutions that have served as safe havens for our favorite actors, singers, and moguls (looking at you, Puff Daddy) where they have received the inspiration and education to dominate the stage, and our hearts. While everyone loves a good story about a celebrity and their HBCU experience, many of America’s politicians […]

The fight to end segregation was a three-pronged attack. The beloved Dr. Martin Luther King Dr. evoked sympathy from the nation, the militant Malcolm X evoked fear and Thurgood Marshall evoked the law. While King and X gave blacks the courage to stand up to segregation, it was Marshall who fought for these brave people […]

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Via: defendernetwork.com Judge Belvin Perry Jr., a 1977 graduate of Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law, has been the presiding judge in the highly publicized Casey Anthony trial. A jury in Florida recently found Anthony not guilty of first degree murder. Caylee Marie Anthony was a child from Orlando whose disappearance in 2008 […]

Via: defendernetwork.com Thurgood,’ the one-man Broadway play starring Laurence Fishburne in his Tony-nominated performance as Thurgood Marshall, the remarkable Civil Rights lawyer and Supreme Court Justice, will debut Feb.24 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT during Black History Month, exclusively on HBO. Told in the first person by Fishburne in the role of Marshall, ‘Thurgood’ is a […]