On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

Ben Sheehan explains how, and how often, Americans have changed their Constitution. How do we change the U.S. Constitution? We’ve done it 27 times – is that too many or too few? Ben Sheehan explains ...

“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 ...