Suicide prevention, mental health and just having a good time riding with friends, motivated riders to bike about 240 miles ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Forty-seven years ago, 14 black students from Tennessee State University were beaten and arrested during the Freedom Rides that helped integrate the South. For their courage ...

Magic Johnson has donated $500K to Xavier University in honor of Norman C. Francis, the first Black President of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The […] ...

This movement began at Texas Southern University in Houston ... including Joan Mulholland, a Freedom Rider who had been subjected to psychiatric counseling for participating in sit-ins while ...

On Jan. 8, Charles Person, an original Freedom Rider, died at his home in Fayetteville, Ga., at age 82. A leader in the Civil Right Movement, Person had visited Anniston several times and came to ...

Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82.

During the NLC Convention, the Freedom Rider told young leaders to vote because the future is in their hands. During the 2024 New Leaders Council Convention, Charles Person, the youngest member to ...

The legacy of Tennessee State University alumnus and Freedom Rider Dr. Ernest 'Rip' Patton, Jr. is now part of the daily lives of thousands of transit riders. The new North Nashville WeGo Transit ...

a Tennessee State University student who became a Freedom Rider; and Kwame Leo Lillard, who became active in the movement as a Nashville teen and went on to hold elected office. All four are deceased.

She was among a small group of students who restarted the Freedom Rides after the first attempt ended in violence and nearly destroyed the movement. By Penelope Green Catherine Burks-Brooks ...

In 2008, Tennessee State University awarded her the other expelled Freedom Riders an honorary doctorate.” ...