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US civil rights activist who as a schoolgirl protested against segregation on Alabama’s buses
Although she was a pivotal figure in the US civil rights movement, Claudette Colvin, who has died aged 86…
41 days ago
Colvin, who died this week, made a stand on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks. When we met, her message about the struggle was clear
“In life, there’s the beginning and the end,” John Carl…
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Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defiance
US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up he…
61 days ago
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Authorities say they arrested a man, 23, for kidnapping teen in a Houston suburb as she walked her dog on Christmas
A Texas father used the parental controls on his teenage daughter’s cell phone to fi…
82 days ago
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required repeated action and tremendous sacrifice, without any certainty it would work
The Montgomery bus boycott, which began 70 year…
84 days ago
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Seventy years after the Montgomery bus boycott, policies hiding in plain sight continue to ravage the Black community
Friday is the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began because…
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Rosa Park’s story is about courage. But, lest one forget, it is also a story about breaking the law
It was 70 years ago when four African Americans were sitting in the fifth row of a bus in Montgomery…
3 months ago
The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery; The Confessions by Paul Bradley Carr; The Good Nazi by Samir Machado de Machado; Bluff by Francine Toon; The Token by Sharon Bolton
The Murder at World’s …
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Banks was convicted of killing 13 people, including his own children, in 1982 shooting in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
George Banks, one of the most notorious mass murderers in the US, has died.
Banks, 8…