Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

She was one of the Clinton 12, Black students who broke a race barrier by entering a Tennessee high school in 1956 in the face of harassment by white segregationists. By Adam Nossiter Adam Nossiter is ...

Longtime state Rep. Ruth Ann Gaines, D-Des Moines, has decided not to run for reelection and instead will retire at the end of her eighth term. Gaines, who represents Iowa House District 33, announced ...

The civil rights trailblazer was one of 12 Black students who attended the first integrated public high school in Clinton, Tenn. Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Cameron Boyce’s grandmother and activist Jo Ann Allen Boyce has died at age 84 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Jo Ann was surrounded by her family at her home in California when she died on ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Jo Ann Boyce, a member of the Clinton 12, has died at 84. The civil rights pioneer faced violent KKK mobs and ...

The night before she first walked into Clinton High School in 1956, Jo Ann Allen beamed over her outfit with the excitement of any teenager starting ninth grade. Her grandmother had sewn the dress — ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jo Ann Allen Boyce, who as part of the “Clinton 12” helped integrate one of the first public schools in the South, died on Wednesday at her Los Angeles home. She was 84. Her ...

CLINTON, Tenn — Jo Ann Crozier Allen Boyce, a member of the historic Clinton 12, died Wednesday at the age of 84. The Green McAdoo Cultural Center announced her death on Dec. 4. Boyce was one of the ...

CLINTON, Tenn. (WATE) — Jo Ann Crozier Allen Boyce, a member of the Clinton 12 who desegregated the first public high school in the South, has died at the age of 84, the Green McAdoo Cultural Center ...