She’s a very humble woman, but she has done a lot of important work over her career,” said Ashley Ledbetter, who was the project manager for the Rosa Parks statue. Ledbetter also serves as ...

You know Rosa Parks ... do her political ideas sound like?” asks historian Jeanne Theoharis. If you fail that pop quiz, so will many others. For too long, the story of Parks has been ...

a $6.1 million investment to make biking safer and easier on a three-mile segment of Willamette between North Rosa Parks Way and N Richmond Ave. The project was awarded federal funding (via Metro) to ...

After three years, North Portland residents finally look poised to get much-needed access improvements to N. Rosa Parks Way. (Photo © J. Maus) A project to improve ...

The project's founder, Bosmat Brantis, said: "I founded a group called 'We are all Rosa Parks,' we get on busses that are usually used by haredim, and they discriminate against women when they ...

Rosa Parks took a historic stand against racial segregation when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 1, 1955. The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement ...

This article first appeared on The Conversation. Rosa Parks has gone down in history as an ordinary, elderly black woman who spontaneously kick-started the modern African-American civil rights ...

The Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University will celebrate what would have been the civil rights icon’s 110th birthday on Feb. 4 with free admission to the museum from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and a ...

But in the course of Parks’ life, the event was just the latest in a number of indignities and racial injustices. By telling her story in flashback, we watch as the quiet resolve grows within ...

It comes 64 years after Parks was arrested for violating segregation laws. City officials in Montgomery, Alabama, unveiled a new statue of Rosa Parks on Sunday, exactly 64 years after the civil ...

The latest project from Peacock focuses on the true, unheard story of one of the Civil Rights Movement's most notable figures. Though we all know the tale of Rosa Parks’ refusal to rise from her ...

Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil ...