Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that ...

And such is the case with the 14th Amendment, especially Section 1.

In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution , ...

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...

Eighteen states and the ACLU filed lawsuits seeking to prevent President Trump from denying citizenship to children born in ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

Birthright citizenship was a profound acknowledgment that those born here, regardless of parentage or circumstance, belong ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...

Sandford, which denied U.S. citizenship to Black people. “They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of ...

President Trump invoked presidential powers to begin his long-promised immigration crackdown shortly after taking office on ...