Josephine Brown became the first Black woman to serve on the Wichita school board in 1971 with the winning slogan, “Build a ...

Once a year, Mendocino Area Parks Association (MendoParks), invites folks to join them on the Mushroom Train, a journey into the redwoods to partake in artisanal cocktails and locally foraged ...

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service's oldest ranger, died Sunday. As a ranger, she shed light on the painful reality of working on the WWII home front as a Black woman.

A fixture of the East Bay’s historical landscape, Betty Reid Soskin spent more than a decade helping visitors understand ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Daybreak crew is going on a Holiday Light Tour this week, visiting a different attraction each morning. Friday’s stop was the Rosa Parks Circle Ice Rink in downtown ...

Frank Moss, who served on City Council for 12 years and led the preservation of the city’s Black community history, died at 81.

Joshua Riley “Josh” Parks, 44, of Newbern, Tennessee died Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in Jackson, Tennessee. Cremation services for Mr. Parks are under the ...

Passed away at the Guelph General Hospital on Sunday, December 14, 2025, at the age of 93 years. Beloved wife of the late Angelo Zilio (2014). Loving mother of John, Rina Pigozzo (Tony) and Dino ...

Virginia Lee (Welchon) Avilla, 94, who spent most of her long life in Marin and Sonoma County, passed away peacefully in Kenwood on Thursday, December 11, 2025. Born on March 31, 1931, in San ...

James Thomas “Tommy” Parks, 81, a resident of Kerens passed from this life Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, at Davis Medical Center in Elkins. Tommy was born Monday, May 1, 1944, in Pineville, Kentucky, a son ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act triggered the historic Montgomery bus ...

What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil rights movement, began after the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give ...