I didn鈥檛 know what to expect when my daughters decided last summer to give away sanitary pads and tampons to girls in need.
I didn鈥檛 know what to expect when my daughters decided last summer to give away sanitary pads and tampons to girls in need.
When they looked over the steel-arched crest of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, the voting rights activists knew there would be trouble.
Kinsey Akers had to take the PSAT but was determined to make her voice heard at a public meeting on school safety that same day.
Andre and his friend were taking turns on a cell phone, playing a video game called 鈥 about staying alive on a zombie-infested planet 鈥 when a real-life gunshot rang out.
When they were children, Herman Parker and his three sisters went to their grandparents鈥 house every election day.
Jonathan sleeps under a bridge at night or on a friend鈥檚 porch. During the day, he holds up a 鈥渉omeless鈥 sign in the grassy area near a highway exit and asks for money.
At just 5 years old, C.C. was suspended from school for destroying property and disobeying her teachers.
The first African American elected mayor of Montgomery, Alabama 鈥 a city known as both the 鈥淐radle of the Confederacy鈥 and the 鈥淏irthplace of the Civil Rights Movement鈥 鈥 urged those who gathered today to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Civil Rights Memorial to ask themselves how they can make an impact on the lives of others.
Carolyn Wells Gee was in bed watching TV with her younger sister when she heard the shot that killed Medgar Evers.