Terri Sewell, D-Ala., Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, and Shomari Figures, D-Ala. introduced legislation to make Rosa Parks Day a federal holiday. The Rosa Parks Day Act would designate Dec. 1 as a federal ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Nearly two thousand demonstrators packed into Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids on Saturday, ...

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

Thousands of people are set to celebrate St. Patrick's Day on Sunday with the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Detroit.

(WIB) – Reps. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, and Shomari Figures, D-Ala., have introduced legislation to make Rosa Parks Day a federal holiday. The Rosa Parks Day Act would designate Dec.

It's a wonderful day and let us be thankful we have reached this point and we will go farther from now to greater things. Thank you!" Today, Rosa Parks is remembered as an ordinary woman who took ...

On International Women's Day, mothers and daughters from across West Michigan poured into Rosa Parks Circle, celebrating past ...

Grand Rapids community gathers at Rosa Parks Circle to honor Breonna Taylor with a memorial featuring a dove release.

On March 16, 1802, the U.S. Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

The day, December 1, would be in honor of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has been proposed by Representative Terri Sewell of Alabama. Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Parks ...