Claudette Colvin, a woman whose efforts against segregation on Montgomery's city buses predates even the iconic Rosa Parks, has died at age 86. "It is with profound sadness that the Claudette Colvin ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death ...

In the Altes Museum in Berlin stands a boy with his arms raised to the heavens. Aside from the right heel, which is slightly arched, this ancient Greek statue is almost perfectly symmetrical. Did the ...

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968, advancing nonviolent resistance against the racial segregation, discrimination, and the ...

Consilium Safety Group and Hyundai Heavy Industries have signed an agreement to explore the use of AI-powered cameras in certified fire alarm systems on ships. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) ...

ClassNK has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for "Safety Berthing/Unberthing Assistance System" developed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. and granted its Innovation Endorsement for Products & ...

Overview Among the powerful new features in Python 3.14 is a new interface for attaching a live debugger to a running Python program. You can inspect the state of a Python app, make changes, ...

Opponents of desegregation used legal maneuvers, school closures, intimidation, and violence to maintain racially segregated schools. The "Southern Manifesto," signed by many Southern members of ...

The most consequential Supreme Court case involving race in the current session centers on whether Louisiana must, per the Voting Rights Act, have not one, but two, majority Black congressional ...

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In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...

In the spring of 1961, Black and white civil rights activists traveled together on public transportation, setting out on Freedom Rides, to test the segregation laws that defined the Jim Crow South.