Only ten years ago, in 2016, activist Deray McKesson was arrested for filming Black Lives Matter protests in Baton Rouge, La.

Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead the Civil Rights Movement. Read about his “I Have a Dream” speech, quotes, holiday, kids, ...

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

At 15 years old, nine months before Rosa Parks, Colvin refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested, handcuffed, and taken to jail for insisting she had the same right to sit in ...

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.

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland police have arrested a suspect accused of threatening someone with a gun while on a TriMet bus. The incident started shortly after 8 a.m. when police got a call about a man ...

She took a stand by sitting down in a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL on Dec. 1, 1955. She was arrested and jailed but didn’t surrender. Today, 70 years later, Rosa Parks is hailed as “the mother of ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, new photos of the Civil Rights Movement ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, new photos of the Civil Rights Movement icon ...