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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Alabama Capitol unveiled statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller —the first monuments to women on the grounds of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ended legal segregation on Montgomery's city buses on Nov. 13, 1956, and a boycott of city buses officially ended just over a month later. An estimated 40,000 Black bus riders ...

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.

Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" rang out in the air on the night of Dec. 1 in downtown Montgomery as a crowd of about 40 people gathered for a unity walk at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial ...