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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday, May 15 over President Donald Trump's bid to follow through with an executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship in the first broad ...

At moments of political anxiety, Americans challenge first principles. Few are more foundational or more misunderstood than birthright citizenship. The text of the 14th Amendment is plain: “All ...

“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 ...