NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennesseans charged with crimes while protesting segregation-era laws can have their records cleared beginning next month. Gov. Phil Bredesen signed the Rosa Parks Act into law, his ...

The article draws a parallel between Christian activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Civil Rights activist Claudette Colvin, who both faced severe consequences for their actions. The author argues that ...

Electronic Interface Associates was hit with a breach-of-contract lawsuit on Jan. 30 in New York Supreme Court for Queens County by insurance companies Great Northern Insurance and Federal Insurance ...

As part of our 150th birthday, the Orlando Sentinel will reprint articles from our archives as part of our Monday Memory feature. Here’s one from nearly 62 years ago, March 7, 1964, about Dr. Martin ...

(A version of this story first appeared on Dec. 12, 2014.) Three years after Martin Luther King Jr. became internationally famous as the spokesman for the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, he came to ...

The state's wildland urban interface map outlines high-risk homes in red. Credit: Map courtesy of the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands The Kamas City Council is poised to create its own ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose arrest 71 years ago as a teenager for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama helped ignite the civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights champion arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a White woman in 1955, has died at the age of 86, her family and foundation announced Tuesday. "It is with ...

On March 2, 1955, a 15-year-old Black high school junior named Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Ala., taking a window seat near the back. When the driver ordered her to ...

The 1950s and '60s were two of the most influential decades. So much history unfolded in such a little time. These moments shaped the way the boomer generation viewed the world around them. Those born ...