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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 29: Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, accompanied by her aides, speaks ...

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NEW ORLEANS — Civil rights organizations gathered to voice their concerns on Saturday about a constitutional amendment on the March 29th Election Ballot. Amendment 3 would change how teenagers are ...

In the final installment of our free speech comic series, we consider how K-12 students , as well as adults enrolled in higher education, can exercise their First Amendment rights in school. Our First ...

On December 16, Harmeet Dhillon's Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice filed the complaint in U.S. v. Government of Virgin Islands in the District Court of the Virgin Islands. The ...

MICHIGAN – A broad, bipartisan coalition of organizations, businesses, lawmakers, grassroots activists, members of the LGBT community and concerned residents from across the state have joined together ...

The Democrat-controlled Senate passed all four constitutional amendments on Friday and can now be placed before voters in a ...

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression educated roughly a dozen students and faculty about their First Amendment rights and civil discourse on college campuses at a Thursday event. FIRE ...

“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 ...