Americans are preparing for nationwide protests on July 17. These protests are to honor civil rights leader John Lewis. The ...

'She Who Dared,' an opera about women in the civil rights movement, opens in Chicago A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

New opera honors the Black women of the Civil Rights Movement “She Who Dared,” likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in Chicago.

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...

A new opera which premiered this week in Chicago highlights the lesser-known women who worked alongside Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement. Reporter Courtney Kueppers from member station ...

A new opera which premiered this week in Chicago highlights the lesser-known women who worked alongside Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement. Reporter Courtney Kueppers from member station ...

Reporter Courtney Kueppers from member station WBEZ in Chicago has more. COURTNEY KUEPPERS, BYLINE: When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white rider on a segregated bus, the world took ...

But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...