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Civil Rights Movement
Claudette Colvin, renowned civil rights activist who refused to give up bus seat to White woman, dies aged 86
Claudette Colvin, the American civil rights pioneer who first refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 86. Ashley Roseboro, a spokesperson for Colvin’s family and the Claudette Colvin Foundation, confirmed that she died in Texas while under hospice care, Reuters reported. As…
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The ‘dirty work’ of the civil rights movement revealed
“Don’t get mad — get smart,” Andrew Young’s father, Andrew Sr.,...
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When Lionel Richie’s parents stopped him from marching with Martin Luther King Jr.
Growing up in the segregated South in the 1950s and 1960s, Lionel Richie longed to be part...
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Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn Black history lessons their schools don’t teach
Florida students are sacrificing their Saturday mornings to fill gaps in Black history education...
