Covering Civil and Human Rights: The Amendment That Made "All Men Are Equal" The Law

Описание: As the United States enters the 250th anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence, Columbia Journalism School’s Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism, Civil and Human Rights is proud to announce a new initiative offering journalists free monthly seminars with some of the nation’s most important scholars talking to journalists who’ve covered these stories.

“Covering Civil and Human Rights” brings journalists together with leading experts to step back from the daily news cycle and examine foundational issues without the legal jargon or partisan framing. The series is designed to provide reporters with factual, historical, and constitutional context to support informed coverage of the biggest stories of our time.

Our inaugural session examined the 14th Amendment - the part of the Constitution that makes “All men are equal” and birthright citizenship the law. We discussed its origins, what it actually says, and why it remains central to civil and human rights debates.

Panelists:

Sherrilyn Ifill, Founding Director of Howard University’s 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy, and former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Robe Imbriano, Director of the Lipman Center and Creator and Executive Producer of the Netflix Documentary series about the 14th Amendment, Amend.