Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are horrified. - Black activists championed the idea of birthright ...

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 ...

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 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

It might be more than 100 years in the making, but calls to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment were renewed this week at a ...

Birthright citizenship—the principle that all individuals born on U.S. soil are granted American citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment—was at the center of arguments heard by the Supreme Court ...

Smith spoke Wednesday at the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage’s annual Constitution Day program, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.

Hannah Liu, 26, of Washington, holds up a sign in support of birthright citizenship outside of the Supreme Court in Washington in May. Credit: Jacquelyn Martin AP On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025 ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment automatically makes all babies born ...

As the nation approaches its 250th birthday next year, the National Archives has mounted its first display of the entire Constitution. The exhibition gives viewers a chance to see not only the ...

“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 ...