Clyburn also said he agreed with former first lady Michelle Obama that the U.S. wasn't ready for a female president, but that ...

A bedrock legal doctrine called "stare decisis," Latin for "to stand by things decided," calls upon courts to respect their prior precedents when resolving new cases on similar matters. A basic tenet ...

The school day at Homer Plessy’s campus in New Orleans’ 7th Ward ends at 3:30 pm, but the school doesn’t close for another two hours. About 100 kids participate in free after-school programming — from ...

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation laws for ...

Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered host Julia Furukawa to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work. The landmark Supreme Court case ...

6:00. ALL RIGHT, FOLKS, SEVEN DEVELOPING TODAY. THE LAST SCHOOL IN THE FRENCH QUARTER WILL STAY WHERE IT IS FOR NOW. HOMER PLESSY SCHOOL WAS SET TO RELOCATE TO THE SEVENTH WARD FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL ...

Keith Plessy, Phoebe Ferguson and Kate Dillingham took a moment together earlier this week to contemplate their ancestors’ legacies after one of those ancestors was granted the first posthumous pardon ...

Inside the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1892, Homer Plessy was charged for sitting in the Whites-only section of a train car. Plessy pleaded guilty and was ordered ...

The governor of Louisiana issued a posthumous pardon Wednesday to Homer Plessy, who lent his name to one of the most infamous decisions in Supreme Court history. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ...