Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

Rosa Parks would have turned 112 this weekend. Twenty years after her death, her legacy in the face of Jim Crow laws and her dedication to non-violent civil rights change is continuing to be honored.

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Rev. Milford L. Griner, president and founder of Gainesville’s Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee (RPQCC), also took the ...

from Carroll Street to Rosa Parks Boulevard, long known for gun violence. Then, something unusual happened after Cuadra’s death on Jan. 19, 2022. Two full years passed without anyone getting ...

Racine District 2 Alderwoman Mollie Jones died Feb. 6 and is being remembered by her colleague as a great friend, neighbor and civic leader.

The church – where abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s funeral was held and Rosa Parks’s casket was brought ... to excuse those that caused the death of a Capitol police officer in the ...

(Courtesy of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority) This year also marks the 20th anniversary of Metro’s historic Rosa Parks bus, which is the same model she protested on. It was ...

“Rosa Parks’ bravery on that Montgomery bus was ... The report suggests that if every state in the country had the gun death rates of the nine states with the strongest gun safety laws ...

Advertisement On Monday, Rev. Al Sharpton held a rally in the nation's capital starting at noon at Washington's Metropolitan AME Church where Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks are laid to rest.