Claudette Colvin’s bold stand comes into focus during Black History Month, highlighting young activists who helped shape the fight for civil rights.

Following Don Lemon's arrest, we look at several Black public figures who were arrested for putting themselves on the line in ...

The thievery, the homicide and/or the decimation of all things Black continue as one of the saddest and longest chapters of American history.

Colvin's arrest on a Montgomery bus at age 15, months before Rosa Parks, helped galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement.

The people who cried out in protest inside a St. Paul church were reminding the congregation of a Jesus who preached a ...

The reverend and civil rights leader was a major proponent of using nonviolent protest to fight for equality.

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.

Claudette Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955 was a key moment in the US civil rights movement. "History had me glued to that seat," she later said.

Claudette Colvin was remembered at her funeral Saturday as a hero in life, and not just for her stance against Montgomery's ...

This article was originally published by Truthout. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids schools, states ban ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who challenged segregation as a teenager, is pictured years after her historic arrest that preceded the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Anderson, a lifelong educator, ...

The nation today marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal observance honoring King’s profound impact while also ...