Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after ...

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But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Civil rights organizations gathered to voice their concerns on Saturday about a constitutional amendment on the March 29th Election Ballot. Amendment 3 would change how teenagers are ...

"Making Amends," the title of the Clinton Presidential Center's new special exhibition, is unlikely to set hearts throbbing. But its topic -- the 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution -- continues to ...

Texas’ largest city has voted 13-4 to amend an ordinance that limits cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, as it faces a major funding threat from Gov. Greg ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...