The article draws a parallel between Christian activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Civil Rights activist Claudette Colvin, who both faced severe consequences for their actions. The author argues that ...
As a teenager, Colvin challenged Montgomery’s segregation law and prevailed. On a March day in 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Under Jim Crow ...
(A version of this story first appeared on Dec. 12, 2014.) Three years after Martin Luther King Jr. became internationally famous as the spokesman for the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, he came to ...
Claudette Colvin, a pioneer in the civil rights movement, has died at the age of 86. As a 15-year-old, Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...
Claudette Colvin, a woman whose efforts against segregation on Montgomery's city buses predates even the iconic Rosa Parks, has died at age 86. "It is with profound sadness that the Claudette Colvin ...
An important milestone has been achieved in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. A new peer-reviewed study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering shows how a high-performance brain-computer ...
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. Not so long ago, the days of racial segregation ...
Ray Marcano argues that recent comments by JD Vance support segregation and the Great Replacement Theory. Ray Marcano is a frequent Columbus Dispatch contributor. The vice president of the United ...
Vice President JD Vance has added a flatly segregationist twist to his broadly unlikable personality, arguing that it’s “totally reasonable and acceptable” for Americans to not want to live next to ...
The most consequential Supreme Court case involving race in the current session centers on whether Louisiana must, per the Voting Rights Act, have not one, but two, majority Black congressional ...
America’s democracy is under threat. President Trump smashes alliances, upends norms and tramples the Constitution. So it’s normal to ask: What can one citizen do to help put America on a healthier ...