“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned ... as well as karate and other activities.” There ...

Rosa Parks wrote those words just a short time after her famous refusal, 60 years ago this month, to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, a protest that galvanized a yearlong bus ...

Parks' activities in Yakima to help celebrate Black History Month came after donations and months of work by community organizations. The Rosa Parks Committee raised $15,000 to bring her to the city.

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal ...