Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...

Nearly five years after fueling the largest protest movement in American history, Black activism stands at a generational, ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses – which brought them to the brink of bankruptcy.

Sandra Schwartz hoists her sign during a Hands Off! rally on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at Rosa Parks Circle in Grand Rapids, ...

The protests are set to take place in a number of suburbs and major cities across the country. Demonstrations are planned in ...

By Bethany Davis Saturday, April 5, thousands of West Michigan activists gathered at Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand ...

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 ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she ... Asked if she would encourage young people to conduct their own nonviolent protests, Parks said she'd recommend "whatever action is necessary to ...

"It's not fair!" "Why do they think they can treat us like this!" Rosa Parks had to go to court. But the protests continued for over a year. The year after Rosa Parks’ protest, the courts in ...

Thousands of Grand Rapids community members crafted protest signs and took to Rosa Parks Circle Saturday afternoon to oppose ...

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. Racism is when someone ...

By T.J. Ray Columnist Rosa Parks has been much on my mind of late. A while ago I sat on a five-gallon plastic  bucket on the north shore of Sardis Lake for several hours, hoping to get a good ...