The movie, I'm pleased to report, exerts the same kind of historical/topical force that "13th" did. DuVernay, while she works in an extremely accessible and mainstream way, has a singular gift for ...
Premiering at the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker's follow-up to her '13th' tackles birthright citizenship, the Equal Protection Clause and the undoing of the gains of Reconstruction.
Now in its 12th year, SFFilm's Doc Stories, running Nov. 5-8, is scheduled to present 10 features, 11 short films and three ...
At IndieWire's Art of the Doc event, the "13th" director explained why her Netflix follow-up contained much more than she initially expected.
With the midterm elections coming up, Ava DuVernay's latest documentary, "14th," arrives at a pivotal time for the United States. Unlike the other buzzy films this season, it doesn't tackle the ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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, ...
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 ...
This week on Legal Speak, we preview a Supreme Court Brief discussion highlighting conflicts between the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause and current Trump administrative policies. Over the ...
The 14th Amendment wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution. Ratified after the Civil War, this amendment transformed the Constitution forever and ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professors Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick talked about their book, The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment. They argued that the 14th Amendment, ...