Lenora “Nook” Hamer Flakes was a lifelong resident of Ruleville, Mississippi. According to Mississippi Today, she worked as ...

As the nation celebrates Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, it is also a time to remember the women who helped King ...

Amateur skaters will be lapping the ice around the clock this weekend at Rosa Parks Circle in Grand Rapids for the 21st ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when ...

Despite her bravery, civil rights leaders deemed Rosa Parks a less problematic face to propel the Montgomery bus boycott ...

Claudette Colvin, a “bespectacled, studious looking high school student” who refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman ...

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...

“I think they [the NAACP] were looking for the right person,” Colvin explained why her actions did not spark the boycott, in ...

A Washington state resident has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges linked to a 2024 incident in which a Black woman using Seattle-area public transit was assaulted by a man who called her ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began days after Rosa ...

What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil rights movement, began after the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give ...

Video above: Rosa Parks and Helen Keller statues unveiled at Alabama CapitolSeven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery ...