Black History Month was founded a century ago as Negro History Week. February was selected in honor of great abolitionist ...

California’s Proposition 209 made the use of race illegal in admissions to public universities in 1996, and the U.S. Supreme ...

An article examining constitutional history, speciesism, and argument for extending legal and constitutional personhood to animals in India.

Our colored fellow citizens of the Methodist persuasion are engaged in putting up a fine new church edifice near the location ...

(WHSV) - Over 60 years ago on Jan. 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified by the states. The 24th ...

The Ohio college town passed the ordinance after some modifications reacting to a federal appeals court decision that struck down Michigan’s statewide ban.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Democrat-controlled Senate on Friday passed all four constitutional amendments that can now be placed before voters in a statewide referendum later this year. The four ...

The Virginia Senate passed a constitutional amendment Friday to pave the way for a mid-decade redistricting push, the final legislative step needed to send it to voters for approval. If voters support ...

Virginia state Senate Democrats passed their redistricting constitutional amendment Friday, putting the party one step closer to redrawing the Old Dominion’s congressional lines. Democrats in the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Four proposed constitutional amendments advanced out of the Virginia House of Delegates on Wednesday following hours of public testimony. Lawmakers said the amendments, passed ...

THE OWNERS PLEAD TO THE COMMUNITY. BUT FIRST, A 15 PERSON HAS DIED IN THE UPS PLANE CRASH THAT DEVASTATED THE LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY. TONIGHT WE’RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT ALAN RODRIGUEZ, WHO DIED FROM HIS ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...