October 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ death. She was 92 when she died in her Detroit home in 2005. WDET’s Jerome Vaughn covered the story at the time and WDET aired that story this ...

Seventy years have passed since Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, and yet the country still tries to shrink her into that single moment — a tired seamstress who’d simply ...

Claudette Colvin: The Story Before Rosa Parks Nine months before the arrest of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin was arrest on a Montgomery city bus, and would be part of the case to end segregation on ...

Rosa Parks became the face of a movement in Montgomery, Alabama. after refusing to give up her seat to a white man 70 years ago today. That singular act of protest in 1955 sparked a city-wide bus ...

Seventy years ago, Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of a bus, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott. Montgomery, Alabama, and other cities will commemorate the historic act of defiance Monday.