The movie, I'm pleased to report, exerts the same kind of historical/topical force that "13th" did. DuVernay, while she works ...
At IndieWire's Art of the Doc event, the "13th" director explained why her Netflix follow-up contained much more than she initially expected.
The Divided Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Decision Exposes Sharp Rifts Among Justices WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court's divided ruling that children born in the U.S. are citizens ...
Premiering at the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker's follow-up to her '13th' tackles birthright citizenship, the Equal ...
In the months leading up to the end of the American Civil War, Frederick Douglass spoke at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery ...
WASHINGTON, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- After nine months of voting across all 50 states, the National Archives Foundation and More Perfect announced the winner of America's 100 Docs: America's ...
Ava DuVernay’s ‘14th’ is an incendiary, must-see ‘13th’ companion tracing America’s constitutional crisis via the Fourteenth ...
NEW YORK — Ava DuVernay announced Thursday that she has made a documentary for Netflix on the 14th Amendment, which gave liberty and rights to formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, and ...
This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the work of ensuring their enforcement. On July 9, 1868, South Carolina became ...
In 2005, the Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment jurisprudence seemed at equipoise. The equal protection clause permitted the use of race to promote diversity in classrooms. The due process clause ...
The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was ratified after the Civil War in order to cement citizenship and legal protections for Black people in the U.S. after slavery was abolished. What ...
The Supreme Court recently spent three hours debating whether states may limit girls’ sports teams to biological females. The justices pressed lawyers on endocrinology, competitive fairness and the ...