Civil Rights and Educational Leader Jean McGuire, 91, Stabbed Multiple Times in Boston Park

Photo: Paul Marotta/GettyA 91-year-old civil rights pioneer from Boston is expected to survive after she was stabbed five times while walking through a park Wednesday evening, officials said.Jean McGuire, the first Black social worker to work in the Boston Public Schools, was walking her dog Bailey through Playstead Park in Jamaica Plain at about 8:30 p.m. when an unidentified person approached her and stabbed her multiple times, reported multiple outlets includingCBS Boston.

Civil Rights Attorney Alleges Amtrak Conductor Tried to Make Her Move to Back of the Train

Photo: Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesCivil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill is claiming that an Amtrak employee asked her to give up her seat to the back of the train during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend.Ifill, who is head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, live-tweeted the incident on Friday, alleging that a conductor asked her to move her seat with no explanation while traveling from Washington D.

Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin's Record Is Expunged 66 Years After Arrest Over Bus Seat

Photo: Tamika Moore / Guardian / eyevine/Redux; Alamy The juvenile record of Claudette Colvin was expunged 66 years after her arrest for refusing to give her seat to a white person on an Alabama bus, PEOPLE confirms. Thecivil rights pioneer, 82, had her name cleared after an Alabama family court judge granted Colvin’s petition to expunge her record last month, her family said in a statement released Thursday. Montgomery Court Judge Calvin Williams signed the order for her record to be destroyed on Nov.

Civil Rights Pioneer Gloria Richardson Dies at 99: 'She Was Born a Leader'

Gloria Richardson.Photo: William Smith/AP/Shutterstock The activist died in her sleep at her New York City home on Thursday, her granddaughter Tya Young told theAssociated Press. A cause of death was not given, though Young noted to the outlet that Richardson had not been ill. A graduate of Howard University, Richardson is known for her unrelenting determination in the fight for racial equality, having once been captured in a photograph pushing away the rifle of a National Guardsman during the civil rights movement in Cambridge, Maryland, in the ’60s.

Civil Rights Probe Launched into Fatal Police Shooting of Black 17-Year-Old in D.C.

Photo: Go Fund Me A civil rights investigation has been announced into the police shooting ofBlack Washington D.C. teenager Dalaneo Martin. It comes a day after body-worn police camera footage of the deadly incident was released to the public. A statement from theU.S. Attorney’s Officeon Wednesday said a civil rights investigation had begun. “The loss of a life is always tragic but is especially heartbreaking when it involves a child. On Saturday, March 18th, 17-year-old Dalaneo Martin tragically died after a shooting involving the U.