Descendant of Judge Who Wrote Infamous Dred Scott Decision Pens a Play About Where We Are Now

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Descendant of Judge Who Wrote Infamous Dred Scott Decision Pens a Play About Where We Are Now

By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — 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 great-great-great-great uncle was Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who made arguably the worst decision in […]

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