A full slate of block parties, cookouts and performances will take place in and around Hyde Park this Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The opera spotlights the women who challenged segregation in Montgomery, using classical music infused with sounds of gospel, ...

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

It's fashion's biggest night of the year, with each person hoping to make the most outrageous sartorial decisions to outdo the next name climbing the steps at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus ... While she wasn't the first person to use a bus sit-in to protest segregation — Bayard Rustin's is the earliest one I'm aware of — Parks ...

The act of resistance against racial segregation set in motion a massive ... with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother of the Civil Rights ...

A small act can spark a movement, and that's what Rosa Parks did ... led to a Supreme Court ruling declaring bus segregation unconstitutional. “Ms. Parks’ actions were monumental in making ...