People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Carter Woodson was a tireless promoter of Black culture who planted seeds for what became Black History Month a century ago ...

Johnson is a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and author of the forthcoming book on national solidarity ... abolished slavery with the 13th Amendment, Republicans should reclaim ...

Reparations. For what? For whom? What does this word mean? At its basic level, Reparations means to make someone whole for past wrongs. Today it is usually phrased as “Reparations for Slavery” to be ...

Let’s start with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution ... Many books have been written about this amendment through the years. These books all end up hinging on one thing: what is moral, and what is ...

Since the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was passed and ratified in ... Estimated costs for the program fall somewhere around $16 trillion, the entire current-day book value of the four ...

That right is enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution ... in the U.S.’ “Second Founding,” the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution in the wake ...

ABC 33/40 is taking time to honor the achievements and legacies of African Americans for Black History Month.Each day we will ...

On his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order attacking birthright citizenship, the constitutional right giving automatic citizenship to any person born in the states ...