The movie, I'm pleased to report, exerts the same kind of historical/topical force that "13th" did. DuVernay, while she works in an extremely accessible and mainstream way, has a singular gift for ...

Premiering at the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker's follow-up to her '13th' tackles birthright citizenship, the Equal Protection Clause and the undoing of the gains of Reconstruction.

Now in its 12th year, SFFilm's Doc Stories, running Nov. 5-8, is scheduled to present 10 features, 11 short films and three ...

Ava DuVernay's ambitious follow-up to "13th" traces the Fourteenth Amendment's unfinished promise, but its urgency sometimes overwhelms its argument.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Demonstrators from across the country will gather outside the Supreme Court on July 9 to celebrate the 158th birthday of the 14th ...

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- After nine months of voting across all 50 states, the National Archives Foundation and More Perfect announced the winner of America's 100 Docs: America's ...

The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was ratified after the Civil War in order to cement citizenship and legal protections for Black people in the U.S. after slavery was abolished. What ...

This week on Legal Speak, we preview a Supreme Court Brief discussion highlighting conflicts between the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause and current Trump administrative policies. Over the ...

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 ...

The 14th Amendment wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution. Ratified after the Civil War, this amendment transformed the Constitution forever and ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professors Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick talked about their book, The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment. They argued that the 14th Amendment, ...