Dorothy Height, an African American administrator, educator, and key civil rights activist, has passed away at the age of 98. Her life was spent crusading for the causes in which she believed ...

But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Dorothy Prevost, the mother of New Orleans civil rights activist, Tessie Prevost, will be honored at the state capital on Wednesday. State Representative Alonzo Knox will ...