Dare To Be

With less than six months to Election Day, the U.S. Supreme Court has a big gaping hole due to the recent loss of Justice Antonin Scalia. The fear of a dreaded 4 to 4 split looms above its gleaming marble columns like a dark and lightening-charged cloud. U.S. President Barack Obama faces uncooperative congressional leaders and a high court nomination that appears to be in indefinite limbo. Before 2016. Before Clarence Thomas. The most controversial Supreme Court nominee, Thurgood Marshall, Jr., shook the halls of Capitol Hill and every southern courtroom with his intense grasp of the law and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. From Sam Davis, Jr. and Sugar Ray Robinson, to Hurricane Katrina and Nelson Mandela's life and presidency after nearly three decades in prison, reporter and author Wil Haygood has elegantly covered and reimagined countless true stories of talent and triumph. His new book, "Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed American," continues Haygood