Activists will gather July 9 at the Supreme Court to celebrate the 14th Amendment and defend civil rights protections.

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That is the phrase, stuck in the middle of the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment, that President Donald Trump is seeking to redefine as part of his campaign to overturn the ...

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Ratified on July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment is a cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution that granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.—including former slaves—and guaranteed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ava DuVernay announced Thursday that she has made a documentary for Netflix on the 14th Amendment, which gave liberty and rights to formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, ...

A constitutional amendment is supposed to reflect the voluntary consent of sovereign states. Instead, the federal government conditioned political participation on agreement with a constitutional ...

I am a historian. More important for this debate, I am a descendant of the babies of slaves — the first Black Americans whose citizenship was guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. That is why I have ...