A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity
Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...
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Advocating the Dream: 7 notable mass gatherings of the Civil Rights Movement
As part of the successful effort to advance racial equality, many mass gatherings and actions were performed over the ...
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A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity
1866, Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto to enact the nation’s first civil rights law. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared freed Black Americans were citizens entitled to ...
To these Black retirees, the federal civil service now under attack was a path to the middle class
The federal civil service that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling has been a way for people of color, in ...
Did Trump's birthright citizenship order attack Native rights? Confusion sparks debate
After the Justice Department filed a written defense of the president's birthright citizenship order, some people feared an ...
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Title VI of the Civil Rights Act vs. Trump’s Executive Orders on Environmental Justice
Environmental justice advocates’ work just got even more difficult, but powerful legal statutes leave them with some support.
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Column: Congress has the power to end birthright citizenship
A reading of the 14th Amendment grants Congress the authority to end birthright citizenship, the Constitution Leadership Initiative’s Gary Porter writes in a guest column ...
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Did Trump's birthright citizenship order attack Native rights? Confusion sparks debate
The attorneys said that because the Civil Rights Act of 1866 excluded "Indians not taxed" from the legislation, the 14th Amendment also was meant to exclude Indians. Next, the Justice Department ...
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Pressley, Booker, and Colleagues: Silent on Dems Paying Reparations for Party’s Support of Slavery
The Fox News headline quoting Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley was hilarious. Quite unintentionally.
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13 Myths And Truths About The Civil Rights Movement
Johnson allegedly said, “What is that goddamned n**ger preacher doing to me? We gave him the Civil Rights Act of 1964, we gave him the Voting Rights Act of 1965, we gave him the War on Poverty.
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This Alabama civil rights icon lived 110 years fighting for voting rights
She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were significant in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.