Big Blue Bus will provide free rides in Santa Monica on Feb. 4, 2026 for Transit Equity Day, honoring Rosa Parks' birthday with the theme 'Transit Moves Democracy' ...

Elizabeth Jennings fought for her right to ride the streetcars in New York City and went on to win a lawsuit against the ...

Laketran and Geauga Transit reserve front bus seats to honor Rosa Parks, encouraging riders to reflect during Black History ...

The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (METRO) will be offering free fares countywide for Transit Equity Day.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. The act of ...

Claudette Colvin, photographed here in 1998, helped end segregation on public transportation. Dudley M. Brooks / The Washington Post via Getty Images Claudette Colvin, widely considered an unsung hero ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death ...

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand. By Clay Risen ...

In Montgomery, a city where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. found his origins as an icon of civil rights, the federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader goes beyond a single day of remembrance, ...

A Washington state resident has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges linked to a 2024 incident in which a Black woman using Seattle-area public transit was assaulted by a man who called her ...

What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil rights movement, began after the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give ...