Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus at age 15 helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a Black high school in Montgomery, Ala., refused to move from her bus ...

The Howard University lecturer, who just nabbed her second consecutive Grammy nomination, “encapsulates the sound of Black ...

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Talk about giving someone their flowers while they could still — potentially — drive their motorcade on them. Some Ohio Republican lawmakers want to name Interstate 70 through downtown Columbus the ...

Longfellow's son, Charley, went on to become a world traveler and author after his brief career as a soldier. (NPS) Charles Appleton Longfellow was the oldest child of American poet and writer Henry ...

Tyler O'Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center," and "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal ...

Alan Barry Jacobson, an attorney and civil rights advocate, died of pneumonia on Nov. 30 at Howard County Medical Center. The Columbia resident was 87. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Milton ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “I just think that’s what has happened to me. I just came at the time when it was meant to happen,” said Educational Trailblazer Velma Lois Jones. She’s the first woman to lead the ...

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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The wife of Atlanta civil rights activist Bishop William C. Harris couldn’t hold back tears as she remembered her husband. “He fought a good fight,” Brenda Harris ...