ESSENCE had the chance to talk with both Wallace and Collier about their latest book “Love is Loud,” how they chose Diane Nash, the collaboration process, and what they hope for young readers ...

we were really surprised that young readers have access to so many books about Dr. King and John Lewis, which is great, but they don’t have access to any books on Diane Nash.” President Joe ...

"Diane and I obviously shared that ... Fisk after missing more classes than she ever imagined. Nash helped coordinate Freedom Rides of young people on buses the federal government was supposed ...

That's when the young Fisk University student decided enough was enough. "Diane Nash didn’t have a smartphone, and she didn’t have Twitter, but she got 4,000 people to come to the courthouse ...

Diane Nash, 84, was a founding member of the Student ... “Parting the Waters” by Taylor Branch, Shuttlesworth said, “Young lady, do you know that the Freedom Riders were almost killed ...

Diane Nash was born in Chicago. She attended Howard University, a historically Black college, before transferring to Fisk ...

Diane Nash, pictured in 2011, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday, July 7. Photo by Leigh Vogel / Getty Images On May 14, 1961, an angry mob attacked the Freedom Riders—a ...

Sixty-four years ago, Diane Nash asked a question and changed Nashville forever. On Saturday, hundreds celebrated her near the courthouse plaza that bears her name. Nashville's Metro Council named ...

NEW HAVEN >> Civil rights icon Diane Nash advised her mostly young student audience at Yale’s Battell Chapel Wednesday to adopt Mahatma Gandhi’s use of nonviolent direct action to achieve ...

When South Side-born Diane Nash was 21, she organized the first of many lunch counter sit-ins at a segregated Nashville eatery. Salt, sugar and hot coffee were thrown on the young woman as she ...