Claudette Colvin, arrested at 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat, helped force the Supreme Court decision that ended bus ...

Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old when she refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. The post ...

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 ...

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...

A Philippine official says rescuers have detected signs of life in an avalanche of garbage that killed at least four workers ...

The removal by a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands of two displays recognizing Black troops who fought in World War ...

Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she led a walkout at her high school, credited with helping end school segregation. Her statue replaces Robert E. Lee's, which was removed in 2020. In 1951, a Black ...

It’s difficult for many people to buy a home in Milwaukee, even if they have a stable job. Some of those challenges can be traced back to the discriminatory practice of redlining. Milwaukee ...

Government agency Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) reported Thursday that entrenched gender segregation in Australia’s labor market is holding back productivity and worsening long-term income ...

Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated area cemeteries. In May 1963, an estimated 2,000 people marched to Oak ...

You've seen it pretty much every day now for decades, and you've interacted with it just as many times, but have you ever wondered why the power symbol looks the way that it does? There's a joke that ...

The bulletins from Washington that were front-paged across the nation one day last week held sensational legal and social implications: the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that segregation is ...