Former VP Kamala Harris tours National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis

Harris was in Memphis for a stop on her book tour. She toured the museum on what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s ...
GBH

Claudette Colvin, who helped spark the civil rights movement, has died

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus at age 15 helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

Claudette Colvin was a civil rights pioneer. She died this week at 86

In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a Black high school in Montgomery, Ala., refused to move from her bus ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Months Before Rosa Parks Made Headlines, Claudette Colvin Refused to Give Up Her Seat for a White Woman on a Segregated Bus

Colvin, a lesser-known figure who took a stand against racial discrimination as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, has died ...

Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Claudette Colvin, who helped spark civil rights movement by refusing to move bus seats, dies at 86

Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame before refusing to give up her seat on a segregated ...

A Timeline of Protests in Iran

Amid a near-total communications blackout, witness footage trickling out of Iran paints a picture of how the country’s ...

Leaders discuss new Freedom Center, a civil rights museum in Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City leaders are meeting on Wednesday to discuss the design plans for a new civil rights center that will serve as a ...
Wall Street Journal

Statistics Isn’t an Enemy of Civil-Rights Law

Elizabeth Price Foley and Jason Torchinsky rightly argue against an overreliance on statistics in adjudicating civil-rights cases. Yet in their op-ed “Disparate-Impact Theory Is Unconstitutional” (Dec ...
CNN

‘It’s a black hole’: Civil rights office at Department of Education veers from original mission

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the country about discrimination and accommodating disabilities has been gutted by ...