Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

The practice was legal in all 13 colonies, and the authors of the Constitution refused to ... With the elimination of slavery, this clause became irrelevant. Law (particularly constitutional ...

ABC 33/40 is taking time to honor the achievements and legacies of African Americans for Black History Month.Each day we will ...

Even more curiously, in making his case that Ark was not an American citizen, that Virginia lawyer took the extraordinary position that part of the U.S. Constitution was ... born into slavery in ...

In the summer of 1863, however, Confederate soldiers bound for Gettysburg captured Lyles and her children. Two years later, with the Civil War at an end and slavery on the verge of being ...

The First Battle of Charleston Harbor occurred on April 7, 1863, almost a year after Robert Smalls escaped slavery after commandeering a Confederate ship at the same site. (Wikimedia Commons ...

Whatever business or trade this person had before the Confederate States of America ... In EJI’s report “Slavery in America: The Montgomery Slave Trade,” it was noted that Montgomery ...

And what’s up with Democrats reducing the cause of the Civil War to “slavery”as though all ... Many of us who have Confederate ancestors don’t like that piece of historical fact, as ...

when Confederate supporters were promoting the false "Lost Cause" mythology to downplay the causes of the Civil War and the evils of slavery and cast the leaders of the Confederacy as ...

Lassiter said she discovered Blair’s history in 2020 after reading a Virginian-Pilot article detailing his ties to slavery. After discussing Blair and Confederate Gen. John B. Magruder with her ...