We’ve all been taught about Rosa Parks. We’ve seen the picture of her sitting placidly on the bus looking out the window, or maybe the statue of her in the US Capitol, where she is seated ...

BERLIN — Section by section, American artist Ryan Mendoza painstakingly disassembled the small wood-frame home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks after learning that the struggling city of Detroit ...

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the ...