The recent death of President John Tyler’s grandchild reminds us that the past seems distant but it’s closer than it appears, former history instructor. Bazemore, Jr. writes ...

In 1853, Tyler had a son. That son had sons of his own including, in 1928, Harrison Ruffin Tyler. ... Claudette Colvin who, as a 15-year-old Black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, ...

Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Bob Hope, Claudette Colbert, Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Charles Boyer and more were in attendance, per Christian Blauvelt's book Hollywood Victory: The ...

Riders can ride at no charge on all RTA buses, streetcars, and ferries. On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in ...

The movement’s dismissal of Colvin — still very much alive, at 85 — in favor of Parks is usually a one-liner in history books, if that. “She Who Dared” elevates it to the status of a ...

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.

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

Claudette Colvin (shown in 2009) is one of the women represented in the opera “She Who Dared.” Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus months before Rosa Parks did the same.

Claudette Colvin in 2020. | Craig Barritt/GettyImages. Months before Rosa Parks’s landmark arrest in 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to ...

Children and adults from all around the area gathered at Colvin Run Mill on Sunday, June 30, to learn about the milling process in the “Run of the Mill” class.

Tray Chaney's home was wiped out and his son, Malachi, was hospitalized after a tornado hit Henry County, Georgia on May 29. Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win $100 📚 Celeb news ⭐ ...