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Netflix's Amend Traces the Fight for Equal Rights for All

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From left: Jim Obergefell, Laverne Cox, and Will Smith will be among those exploring the Fourteenth Amendment's significance.Laverne Cox, Samira Wiley, Mahershala Ali, Diane Lane, Randall Park, and more will be featured in a new Netflix documentary series, Amend: The Fight for America, which explores the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution as the nation’s most enduring hallmark of democracy.The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, promised equal protection of the laws to all citizens, which it defined as those born or naturalized in the U.S.

Its most important purpose at the time was to assure the rights of Black Americans, most of whom had been enslaved until a few years earlier.

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