Dred Scott was not the only “piece of property” that he fought to win freedom for during his lengthy legal battles that ended unsuccessfully at the Old Courthouse in St. Louis. Scott had a wife by his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet Robinson Scott thought they had a chance at freedom. They lived in Missouri ...

This weekend the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation will raise money for its efforts at reconciliation and commemoration with a dinner that attempts to offer both. The foundation will host “Dred Scott and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – FOX 2 continues its honoring of ...

I'm a very competitive person by nature, and I like a good challenge. That's a big reason why I play video games, and why I particularly enjoy games by FromSoftware, the powerhouse developer behind ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column that included a brief discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the 1857 case that both invalidated the Missouri Compromise and closed the ...

The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...

Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom based on having lived in free territories, a legal strategy that had previously succeeded in Missouri. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v.