Chicago Opera Theater’s world-premiere about the 1950s Montgomery bus boycotts tells the real story, usually a one-liner in ...

The first passenger seat in each bus will be off limits, marked with a commemorative sign for Rosa Parks, who was arrested after refusing to give up her seat for a white passenger on Dec. 1 ...

Pauli Murray, the first Black woman to be ordained by the Episcopal Church, was an advocate for women’s rights and racial ...

Community members attended a training on legally documenting ICE activity, emphasizing lawful actions and civil rights protection.

A woman may have committed arguably one of the most embarrassing faux pas in public transit history after not paying attention to where she sat. Nola (@nolagordon) shared a pair of Snapchat photos she ...

On June 19, 1865, a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, which he read , ...

Unions in California are different from many in the U.S. because they are predominately people of color and immigrants. The ...

A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

“But the more I dug into it, I actually found someone with [my mother’s] maiden name: Browder, Aurelia Browder, who did sit on the bus five months before Rosa Parks.” In this Feb ...