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 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 ...
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 ...