Supreme Court decisions affect educators, students and working families every day. Find out how we “graded” key decisions ...

The decisions so far show that the conservative court isn’t going to act as a resistance to an increasingly autocratic ...

While the history of Black Americans and transportation justice began with forced movement in slavery and attempts at ...

The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship Reinterpretations of the act to grant rights to those freed from slavery have involved slaughterhouses, unions, train cars ...

Protesting the violation of his 13th and 14th amendment rights, the history-maker's court case became known as Plessy v. Ferguson. With Judge John Howard Ferguson presiding, Plessy was found ...

In the post-Civil War environment, that ruling clearly had to be corrected and so the 14th Amendment’s congressional authors wrote it in such a way as to include not just newly freed slaves but ...

Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy V. Ferguson court case, pose for a photograph in front of a historical marker in New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 7, 2011.

Here we have the latest entry in a dismaying 155-year tradition of American judges stripping that radical amendment to the U.S. Constitution of its intended power.

This summer, the Supreme Court continued one of its longest-standing legacies: upholding White Supremacy. In 1857, Dred Scott v. Sandford ruled that enslaved peoples were not American citizens and ...

Federal courts acted quickly to render the 14th Amendment a hollow promise, culminating in Plessy v. Ferguson ’s 1896 holding that “equal protection” means nothing more than ensuring that ...

In 1954, in Brown vs. Board of Education, the Court overturned Plessy, ruling that separate public accommodations violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which holds that no ...

I realize that this is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position for which I have been excoriated by “liberal” colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed.