Civil rights movement

Dolores Huerta, civil rights icon behind “Sí, se puede,” dies at 96

Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta, who gave the world “Sí, se puede,” has died aged 96. For more than 70 years, Dolores Huerta never stopped fighting for the people who grow America’s food, marching, organizing, ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86

Nearly a decade before her name appeared in history books, and nine months before Rosa Parks’ famous arrest, a 15-year-old Black teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, quietly made a decision that would help dismantle segregation in ...