In 1944, a group of eight Howard University students took a stand against the status quo in segregated Virginia. Now, a commemorative site honors their efforts to fight back against Jim Crow laws.

There's a new effort to create a federal holiday in honor of Rosa Parks. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell held a news conference ...

“Not a single federal holiday honors a woman,” said U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio.). Beatty said designating Dec. 1 as Rosa Parks Day would not just be a day off work. “It’s a day to teach, to ...

People gathered at the state capitol for the 25th Annual Rosa Parks Day. Sacramento RT brought out old buses that operated in the 1950’s. Organizers of the event are hoping more people will learn ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, ...

Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday officially designated Feb. 4 as Rosa Parks Day in Massachusetts, on what would have been the civil rights leader’s 112th birthday.

David Rickman — a freelance historian, author and illustrator — will be delivering a lecture, “What was Worn in Mexican ...

Black History Month honors the achievements and contributions of African Americans to the country every February.

Not only is King featured in the image, but civil rights icon Rosa Parks makes an appearance as well...and it’s sexually suggestive. Morris Chestnut Tells Us What Song Always Gets Him to the ...