The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...

R osa Parks transformed American history with her quiet defiance. On December 1, 1955, her refusal to give up her bus seat in ...

A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil ...

While driving along the backroads of Hope Hull, you might expect to see chickens in a yard, a horse or two in a field or some cows in a pasture. Instead, the small, unincorporated town is home to the ...

A BHS basketball coach's demand that a player cut his hair and quit a Black student organization in 1970 exposed racial ...

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a ...

What will be closed for Juneteenth in Alabama? Here's what you need to know about what's open and closed for the state holiday ...

Alabama officially recognizes Juneteenth as a state holiday, prompting statewide celebrations. Multiple events are planned throughout the state, including a free celebration at the Rosa Parks Museum, ...

A claim began circulating online in early 2024 that civil rights activist Rosa Parks' husband, Raymond Parks, had a car. It's unclear where the rumor originated, but it was repeated by American ...

According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

Ms. Glass, a professor of geography at Alabama State University, is the last surviving member of the Women’s Political Council, which demonstrated against the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955.