The Other Black Justice on the Supreme Court
Thirty years after his death, Thurgood Marshall’s ideas still resonate.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Eric Adams Is Making White Liberals Squirm
He battled police brutality. Now this ex-cop is fighting efforts to defund the force. Many New Yorkers seem ready to give his middle-of-the-road ideas a try.
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Clarence Thomas, a black, is Ronald Reagan's chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He walks a lonely road, not really agreeing with conservatives or liberals.
