George L. Russell Jr., a trailblazing judge, lawyer, and founding chairman of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, was honored at a July 12 memorial service in Baltimore, where loved ones remembered his ...

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The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture honored B Michael and his husband Mark-Anthony ...

Amir Hassan, a Navy veteran and former federal law enforcement officer, has moved home to Michigan to run for the U.S. House ...

Lawyers, law students and other fans of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson erupted in cheers and a standing ...

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Forgotten openly gay activist spearheaded the historic 1963 March on Washington, which had an estimated 250,000 attendees.

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