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.

The director wants audiences to “make their decisions about how they feel” about the technology, which is used to bring to ...

The Netflix documentary about the significance of and challenges to the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was the closing night screening at the 2026 New York Film Festival.

Any valid points made in Ava DuVernay's documentary about the 14th amendment are uncut by AI slop and imprecise interviews.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Zimmytws/Dreamstime.com) The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on birthright citizenship has produced the reaction everyone ...

Ava DuVernay's return to the New York Film Festival a decade after her acclaimed film '13th' opened the 2016 edition.

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment echoes that of the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment, however, applies only against the federal government. After the Civil War, Congress adopted ...

L-R: Director Ava DuVernay with Dr. Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress ousted by Donald Trump Netflix 14 th, the documentary directed by Ava DuVernay that premiered Friday night as the ...

After the Civil War, the fight for freedom continued. Learn how the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments ended slavery, defined citizenship, and expanded voting rights. Discover how these powerful changes ...