The ALA usually features 10 books, but this year has 11, with four tied for eighth place. The list arrives during National ...

Three families who lost loved ones in crimes involving undocumented immigrants shared emotional testimony on Capitol Hill ...

Myles Colvin has entered the transfer portal after one season at Wake Forest. Colvin previously transferred from Purdue to Wake Forest last spring. Colvin was a reserve on Purdue's Final Four team in ...

Patsy Jean Abernathy, 92, formerly of Jackson, died March 19 in Cape Girardeau; no services by request, with interment at Russell Heights Cemetery under Ford and Sons’ care. Patsy Jean Abernathy, 92, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAFF) - February celebrates Black History Month, which is a time to honor the contributions, achievements, and central role of Black people in history, and also a time to honor the ...

Phillip Hoose is the author of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, which received the 2009 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and a Newbery Honor. Here, Hoose pays tribute to the ...

KENMORE, N.Y. (WKBW) — Colvin Cleaners is launching a new era by opening a dedicated headquarters for its Gowns for Prom program in the Village of Kenmore, giving students throughout Western New York ...

For one of her closest family members, the passing of Claudette Colvin at 86 brings home a point about the older generation of civil rights activists. "I think if we pass the baton then the young ...

As a teenager, Colvin challenged Montgomery’s segregation law and prevailed. On a March day in 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Under Jim Crow ...

When I read the news of civil rights activist Claudette Colvin passing away this month, I looked at a list of other civil rights visionaries who have died who were, like Colvin, not as well known.

Claudette Colvin’s bold stand comes into focus during Black History Month, highlighting young activists who helped shape the fight for civil rights. A portrait of American civil rights activist ...

Claudette Colvin was remembered at her funeral Saturday as a hero in life, and not just for her stance against Montgomery's segregation rules from the mid-1950s when she was just a teenager. Colvin ...