In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution , ...

Over the years, the right to citizenship has been won by various oppressed or marginalized groups after hard-fought legal ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

Sandford, which denied U.S. citizenship to Black people. “They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of ...

A man was recently sentenced to life in federal prison after being convicted by a jury for kidnapping and sexually assaulting ...

Birthright citizenship was a profound acknowledgment that those born here, regardless of parentage or circumstance, belong ...

The power of storytelling has always been at the heart of Black resistance. Long before social media activism and viral ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

Eighteen states and the ACLU filed lawsuits seeking to prevent President Trump from denying citizenship to children born in ...

However, since a loophole in the 13th Amendment permits “involuntary servitude” for those convicted of a crime, inmates are ...

Online, on platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and Reddit, slave labour is being discussed in light of deployment of certain firefighters to douse the LA fires. The reason behind that is the 13th Amen ...