We all know about civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who on Dec. 1, 1955, defiantly refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white passenger as the Jim Crow laws at the time decreed.

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 ...

At the feet of this Rosa Parks statue in Montgomery, Ala., are the names of lesser-known women from the Civil Rights Movement. The new opera “She Who Dared” tells their stories.

Lesser-known Black female heroes are taking center stage in an opera aptly called “She Who Dared.” "She Who Dared" spotlights the women who challenged segregation in Montgomery, using ...

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in Chicago.

In the midst of the passing of the Civil Rights Act, as it was being filibustered on the Senate floor, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X crossed paths on Capitol Hill.

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Black medical leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, such as Dr. W. Montague Cobb, advocated for the passage of Medicaid and Medicare. Others, including King, spoke of health care as a moral ...

The Civil Rights Division has recently seen an exodus of around 70% of its lawyers, according to reporting by The Guardian. “The division is now focusing on protecting the people who this White House ...

Jemele Hill compares the push for transgenders in women's sports to Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement on CNN while in an argument with Scott Jennings.

President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Curbing so-called ...