Experts estimate that as many as four million people took part in 'No Kings' protests nationwide to send a message to the ...

Grace Zhang, a Jericho eighth-grader, earned second place in ARTEFFECT, a national competition held by the Lowell Milken ...

As a young man, I witnessed the Civil Rights Movement without a complete understanding of what I was seeing. There might have ...

The Michigan high school seniors are the latest recipients of scholarships honoring civil rights activist Rosa Parks.

Chicago Opera Theater has just unveiled a remarkable new work. “She Who Dared” is a compelling true story with warts-and-all ...

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

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.

Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. Born in 1913 in ...

“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned ... It was a time when there was a link between the Civil Rights Movement, Black churches and Mahatma Gandhi’s ...