On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

The Supreme Court will decide whether the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship in the U.S., an interpretation the Trump admin. is fighting.

Every American citizen owes a debt of gratitude to John Mercer Langston, architect of the 14th Amendment and founding dean of the Howard University School of Law. His writings and speeches are ...

In conservative push to redefine the 14th Amendment, Los Angeles schools are on the front line ...

Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Today, a coalition of civil rights organizations representing multiracial teachers and students filed a brief pushing back against the state of Oklahoma's efforts to stall litigation ...

"Making Amends," the title of the Clinton Presidential Center's new special exhibition, is unlikely to set hearts throbbing.