The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ...

Column: My white privilege meets Sonia Sotomayor’s scathing attack on police power. ... “For generations, black and brown parents have given their children ‘the talk,’” she wrote, ...

Why must Sonia Sotomayor, alone among recent Supreme Court nominees, deny the importance of her personal history? Everybody has a unique history, everybody brings beliefs and biases to their work ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor says “the biggest misconception people have” when Supreme Court rulings are weighed and handed down is that “the law is clear” to begin with. “Most people think ...

President Barack Obama threw a big White House party Wednesday to celebrate Sonia Sotomayor as the Supreme Court’s first Latino justice – and to publicly savor the victory sure to earn him ...

WASHINGTON — A black president introduced his Hispanic Supreme Court nominee while his white vice president watched. It was a custom-made American tableau, the politics of biography. The flags ...

I still recall, at the age of 12, watching a dignified black woman—Constance Baker Motley, attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund—escort James Meredith through a jeering white mob in 1962 … ...

Decrying the way the decision “forgives” police who detain people based on nothing more than a hunch, Sotomayor drew on her own experience as a Latina and invoked the lessons of the Black ...

In what’s being touted as a turning point in the way the U.S. Supreme Court considers the factor of race in the criminal justice system, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday delivered a scathing… ...