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Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Born in Maryland, Roger Taney was a lawyer, politician, and the fifth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. During ...

The family of the chief justice who presided over the Supreme Court 160 years ago apologized to the family of a slave who tried to sue for his freedom. Charley Taney on Monday apologized for the words ...

ANNAPOLIS — Legislation moving through Annapolis could put a statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, a Maryland native known for writing the pro-slavery Dred Scott opinion, in ...

The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would remove Confederate statues from the Capitol. According to the Associated Press, the bill passed with a 285-120 vote, with the Democrats ...

Abust of Roger Brooke Taney's angular, haunted face stares out from atop a pedestal at Frederick City Hall, and he is featured prominently on lists of the city's most revered former residents. A ...

Debate over relocating the Roger Brooke Taney bust from outside Frederick City Hall has lost most of its fire since the Board of Aldermen approved the proposal a few months back. But that doesn’t mean ...

NEW YORK — Writer and actor Kate Taney Billingsley has been thinking a lot about America's racial history and her family's part in it. One of her ancestors had an outsized role. Billingsley's ...

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