KC's Outlaws and Springfield-based Thunder compete in the Professional Bull Riders Team Series, a rapidly expanding league ...

The Lord didn’t make us unequal.” Now 82, the Freedom Rider still walks into rooms where she is the only one who looks like her, reminding others that the fight for justice is not about her. Her son, ...

Activist Miller Green shared his story of being apart of the Freedom Riders in the 1960s at a Black History Month event Saturday in Markham.

MARKHAM, Ill. – A south suburban city council chamber filled with residents for a Black History celebration featuring one of the Freedom Riders who played a role in dismantling segregation in ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied, and nearly killed as they traveled across the South in 1961, helping the Civil Rights Movement gain ...

Charles Person, known as the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. He passed away peacefully at his Fayetteville home surrounded by loved ones.

"The Freedom Riders serve to remind this generation of a time when people were willing to risk their reputations, their careers and their lives (for the greater good)," TSU President Melvin ...

Caddo District Court records show precisely what happened when four Freedom Riders were arrested on Aug. 4, 1961, as they tried to get on a bus to Jackson, Mississippi.

A public memorial for King Hollands will be held at his alma mater, Fisk University, on Feb. 17. Hollands, a civil rights leader, died Dec. 17.

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, who ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white ...