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

The multiple roles in which he excels—composer, arranger, conductor, producer, educator, and yes, extraordinary bassist—garner him a number of challenging ... this multi-disciplinary concert will ...

We all know about civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who on Dec. 1, 1955, defiantly refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white passenger as the Jim Crow laws at the time decreed.

Musically, Bonds takes us through pivotal moments in Black History – Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat, the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, the fire-bombing of the 16 th Street Baptist ...

SHREWSBURY – A century before Rosa Parks fought for racial equality on a Montgomery, Ala. bus, a brave teacher challenged racist streetcar policies in New York City, taking her fight to court in 1854 ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

Almost 50 years before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws on an Alabama bus, another civil rights activist, Barbara Pope, refused to leave the “whites only” compartment of a passenger train ...

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 ...

Paul Stephenson, who has died aged 87, played a pivotal role in the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott, an event that helped to pave the way for the Race Relations Acts of 1965 and 1968. Stephenson – who ...

In the same year that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Stone did the same thing while aboard the "Big Boy" train, which was headed for ...