"In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter," says civil rights attorney Damon ...

This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina became the 28th state to ratify the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which, in part, made freed people United States citizens for the first time. When South ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, granting citizenship and “equal protection under the ...

Legal advocates in California are behind the fight to stop President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship ...

When the Supreme Court ruled in Trump's favor two weeks ago in a case arising from his efforts to ban birthright citizenship, ...

A federal judge blocked Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship but the case is likely headed to US ...

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

The Supreme Court's ruling on universal injunctions brings Trump closer to changing how citizenship is granted to babies born to noncitizens in the U.S.