As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to ...

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On Thursday, communities and organizations from across the country celebrated Juneteenth, commemorating the announcement of the end of slavery to enslaved Afri ...

A nationwide movement dubbed "No Kings Day" will see protestors gathering in cities across the country, including Lexington, to demonstrate against President D ...

This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress, dominated by free state Republicans after the secession of slaveholding states, worked for 18 months to secure ...

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...

A duplicate of the 13th Amendment on display at the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources in Raleigh, N.C. — AP Photo/Gerry Broome Gerry Broome Facebook ...

It’s obviously hard to know what Abraham Lincoln would think today about parts of the 13th Amendment that was broadly designed to end slavery. He was assassinated just four months after Congress ...

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe is planning to press ahead with his quest for the full implementation of the 13th Amendment as part of his reconciliation efforts with the nation’s ...

Following that meeting, Tamil politicians hyped up expectations of the APC claiming that Wickremesinghe would discuss devolving police powers to provinces as per the 13th amendment to the ...

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for punishment for a crime for which the defendant ...

Noncompete clauses arguably violate the 13 th Amendment to the Constitution because they impose involuntary servitude on low wage workers. The 13th Amendment provides that “neither slavery nor ...