Many prominent historical figures are from the Metro Detroit area. Here’s a list of prominent Black historical figures in ...

Looking through the film posters and memorabilia ... So, like NAACP secretary Rosa Parks, who would become a catalyst of the Birmingham bus boycott a decade later in 1955, in 1942 Lena Horne ...

Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

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

Transit Authority of River City is participating in Black History Month this February by recognizing a famous civil rights ...

“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 ...

Montgomery desegregated its city buses the next day. The boycott lasted 382 days. National City Lines bus No. 2857 on which Rosa Parks rode that day is now on display at the Henry Ford Museum in ...

At about the same time, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks was arrested, sparking a protest campaign that would go down in history as the Montgomery bus boycott — another key moment in ...

Though her attorney Fred Gray’s appeal met legal hurdles, her courage sparked a 381-day boycott that pushed the Supreme Court to strike down bus segregation. Rosa Parks blazed trails long before her ...

The Weeknd announced his boycott in 2021 after he was shut out of that year's awards, citing the complicated way nominees were determined at the time and accusing the Recording Academy of a lack ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Activists are calling for a nationwide boycott of Target stores following the company's decision to roll back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The company announced ...

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 ...