14th

Q&A with Former Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden and Sherillyn Ifill, civil rights leader and founding director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy at the Howard University School of Law, following the screening 

If 13th asked who gets caged, then 14th asks who gets counted," explains acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who returns with an urgent new documentary a decade after her Oscar-nominated landmark film 13th, this time focusing on the 14th Amendment. Ratified in the aftermath of the Civil War, the amendment promised citizenship and equal protection under the law, a radical rewrite of who counts as American. More than 150 years later, that promise is still being fiercely fought over in courtrooms, legislatures, and headlines. Blending rich archival material with the immediacy of today's news, DuVernay interviews historians, legal scholars, political figures, cultural voices, critics, and others to trace how a single amendment has become a battleground for the nation's identity. The result is a powerful and illuminating portrait of America today that asks a question the country has never resolved: Who gets to belong?  Q&A with Former Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden and civil rights leader and scholar Sherrilyn Ifill following the screening.