These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...

Speaking at Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre, Abdul-Jabbar reflected on his path into social justice activism as a young ...

1. Sixteen new Chicago speed cameras are set to start ticketing drivers just days from now ...

The City of Tallahassee and Leon County commemorated the 69th anniversary of the 1956 bus boycott, sparked by FAMU students, Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson.

Historian Jeanne Theoharis joins us for an in-depth discussion about her new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, a major reexamination of his ...

Tara Campbell unlocked the front door of the Bricklayers Hall, a no-frills brick building on South Union Street in downtown Montgomery, half a mile from the white-domed Alabama Capi ...

It's fashion's biggest night of the year, with each person hoping to make the most outrageous sartorial decisions to outdo the next name climbing the steps at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

An effort in Congress to honor Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks could make Dec. 1 a new federal holiday. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus reintroduced their legislation on what would have been ...

Cummings had maintained a scrapbook of newspaper articles during the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott. Next to articles describing the arrest of Rosa Parks, he wrote "#2857" and "Blake/#2857." ...

Accessed 4 Dec. 2024. Library of Congress. "The Bus Boycott | Explore | Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words | Exhibitions at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress." The Library of Congress ...

Montgomery and Huntsville will honor the anniversary of bus boycott with museum tours and free bus rides on Rosa Parks Day. The Alabama cities of Montgomery and Huntsville are preparing to honor ...

While thousands of other Negroes boycotted Montgomery City Lines in protest, Mrs. Rosa Parks was fined $14 in ... segregation ordinance. ... The boycott was organized after circulars were ...