Hello! I cover the Northtowns for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at [email protected] KENMORE, N.Y. (WKBW) — Colvin Cleaners is launching a new era by opening a dedicated ...

Ogden/St. George — Bobby Wallace Colvin beloved son, brother, dad, uncle, grandpa, great grandpa, teacher mentor and friend passed away February 3, 2026. He was 94 years old. Bobby was born on August ...

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 ...

When I read the news of civil rights activist Claudette Colvin passing away this month, I looked at a list of other civil rights visionaries who have died who were, like Colvin, not as well known.

Claudette Colvin was remembered at her funeral Saturday as a hero in life, and not just for her stance against Montgomery's segregation rules from the mid-1950s when she was just a teenager. Colvin ...

On 2 March 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African- American high-school student, boarded a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, taking a window seat. “When the driver ordered her to give up ...

Longtime children’s editor Andrea Colvin has announced the launch of an eponymous literary agency specializing in books for young readers, from picture books through new adult. Colvin is best known ...

Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin made history. As the civil rights pioneer has died at 86, we revisit the courage, complexity, and cost of her resistance and why her story was sidelined for so long ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death ...

History often remembers movements by their most recognizable moments. It less often remembers the teenagers who moved first. Family and friends mourn the loss of Claudette Colvin, who is famous for ...

In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a Black high school in Montgomery, Ala., refused to move from her bus seat. The forgotten civil rights activist died this week. More than 70 years ...