Nine months before Rosa Parks's act of defiance, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Colvin was arrested for the act but has been immortalized ...

Discover Claudette Colvin's courageous 1955 bus protest, predating Rosa Parks, in Montgomery. Disgraced former US Senator Bob Menendez weeps as he's sentenced to 11 years in prison in corruption ...

Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday, a moment to honor her unwavering fight for civil rights. Often recognized as part of the ‘Holy Trinity’ of Black ...

The work of people like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X led to the passing of civil rights acts and Supreme Court rulings to end segregation. These judgments ...

In 1944, a group of eight Howard University students took a stand against the status quo in segregated Virginia. Now, a ...