Defending champion Thunder back on track at midpoint after beating Spurs for 1st time in 4 meetings

Oklahoma City started the season with a 24-1 record, matching the best 25-game start in league history. The Thunder followed ...

Remembering Claudette Colvin, an overlooked civil rights hero who helped end bus segregation as a teen

Claudette Colvin, who defied bus segregation at 15 before Rosa Parks, has died at 86. Discover how her legacy shaped civil ...

Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated ...
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Months Before Rosa Parks Made Headlines, Claudette Colvin Refused to Give Up Her Seat for a White Woman on a Segregated Bus

Colvin, a lesser-known figure who took a stand against racial discrimination as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, has died ...

A 3,000-Ton Locomotive Was Loose, Unstoppable, and Filled with Toxic Cargo

The real-life story of how railroad veterans, first responders, and sheer nerve prevented an unimaginable catastrophe.

Sister of civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin says ‘she was an ordinary person that did an extraordinary thing’

Colvin also became one of four Black female plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit challenging segregated bus seating in Montgomery.