SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to abolish enslavement. Juneteenth commemorates the ...

This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress, dominated by free state Republicans after the secession of slaveholding states, worked for 18 months to secure ...

The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American democracy, the Civil War-era constitutional amendment set “free” an estimated 4 million ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Thirteenth Amendment ...

A group of Democratic lawmakers has reintroduced a joint resolution to negate a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution that permits slavery or involuntary servitude “as a punishment for ...

Slavery helped bring about the deadliest military conflict in the history of the United States – the American Civil War. The Trans-Atlantic trading routes brought in more than 12 million enslaved ...

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA-05) issued the following statement Tuesday to mark Juneteenth and the recent progress for their Abolition Amendment—a ...

In my previous post, I explained how U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly used a motion to dismiss a criminal indictment under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to promote her ...

Republicans and Democrats Can’t Agree on Anything — Except the AI Threat Alex Acosta Claims Lack of Victim Cooperation Would Have Derailed Epstein Prosecution Trump Commutes Former Representative ...

Lincoln was the only Oscar-winning movie ever to dramatize the passage of a constitutional amendment — the 13th, which ended slavery. Director Steven Spielberg gave all the credit for the amendment’s ...

Having already aired director Ava DuVernay’s documentary “13th,” about the legacy of the 13th Amendment, Netflix ups the ante by devoting a six-part series to the 14th with “Amend: The Fight for ...