They came from two very different worlds. The couple that wrote one of Aretha Franklin’s greatest songs never met the singer who would turn the composition into a classic. Carol Joel Klein—later to ...

Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, new photos of the Civil Rights Movement icon have been made ...

U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty and other central Ohio community leaders commemorated the 20-year anniversary of Ohio becoming the first state to have a day to memorialize Rosa Parks, the late Civil Rights ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It’s a big day for ice skating fans in Grand Rapids: The ice rink at Rosa Parks Circle has opened for the season. On Friday, the first day of its season, the rink opened ...

The city of Lafayette, Louisiana, held a ceremony to honor the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic act of defiance. On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Monday, Dec. 1, at 6:06 p.m. will mark exactly 70 years to the minute that Rosa Parks made the historic decision to refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her quiet ...

From dream job to favorite food, sports hero or favorite childhood memory, there is no shortage of information in each of the personal player bios on the University of Houston’s football website.

On a July morning in 1995, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was the site of the closing ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change’s 20th Annual Summer Workshop on ...

It's been 70 years since Rosa Parks made the brave decision to stay seated onboard a Montgomery bus. Parks' refusal sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which led to the end of bus segregation and ...

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 ...