In a few ways, Iowa has been more progressive than the rest of the country when it comes to providing equity to Black ...

The issue of whether enslaved people were eligible for U.S. citizenship came to the forefront in 1857 when the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against Dred Scott, a slave, and his bid to sue for freedom.

The Trump directive recalls the era of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the infamous 1857 decision that said Black people could not be citizens. That case, which helped precipitate the Civil War, was reversed ...

The Harvard Law graduate said the “purpose of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause was to overturn the Dred Scott case, not to bestow citizenship on those present in the U.S. against the ...

The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War, was designed to override the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision that denied citizenship to former slaves. It states that “all persons ...

Photographs taken of the retina at the back of the eye can give an indication of brain health, and by using AI software to analyse the information, scientists may be able to spot signs of disease ...