Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 29: Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, accompanied by her aides, speaks ...

In the final installment of our free speech comic series, we consider how K-12 students , as well as adults enrolled in higher education, can exercise their First Amendment rights in school. Our First ...

NEW ORLEANS — Civil rights organizations gathered to voice their concerns on Saturday about a constitutional amendment on the March 29th Election Ballot. Amendment 3 would change how teenagers are ...

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression educated roughly a dozen students and faculty about their First Amendment rights and civil discourse on college campuses at a Thursday event. FIRE ...

Where Jewish students are targeted with threats of antisemitic violence or willful intimidation, any students engaged who are responsible should face swift sanction from the college in question. Too ...

Virginia voters will face a crucial decision this November on whether to restore civil rights to former felons, including ...

The U.S. Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of allowing a Mississippi street preacher to revive his federal civil rights lawsuit over a local ordinance prohibiting him from evangelizing outside ...

The City of Minneapolis is bolstering civil rights protections under an amended ordinance by banning discrimination based on criminal history. The City Council unanimously passed an ordinance under ...

“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...