Chicago Opera Theater’s world-premiere about the 1950s Montgomery bus boycotts tells the real story, usually a one-liner in ...

She Who Dared centers the women behind the Montgomery bus boycott and the landmark case of Browder v. Gayle.

The seven impeccably cast singers are strong, each fitting superbly into the ensemble and making the most of their solo ...

A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

Iris Rodriguez-Rosa has worked for the parks department since 1986, when Ed Koch was mayor. Now, she'll lead the agency.

John Dempster meets a woman not afraid to speak out for the causes she believes in and those she wants to help.

Local officials now have their plan for how to spend money on public transit, but there’s still unfinished work in the North ...

These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...

Speaking at Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre, Abdul-Jabbar reflected on his path into social justice activism as a young ...

1. Sixteen new Chicago speed cameras are set to start ticketing drivers just days from now ...

The scheduled closure is to allow Lafayette Utilities System crews to perform sewer main repairs within the roadway. Local ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn't the first person to use a bus ...