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

City leaders and members of the Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee hosted their annual Rosa Parks commemoration event Tuesday morning, marking the 19th year.

Al Sharpton promised a boycott of companies moving away from DEI policies, which has included Mark Zuckerberg's Meta and Jeff ...

Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday announced a boycott of companies eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, saying the effort will be in the spirit of the late civil rights leader Martin ...

An example would be Rosa Parks in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda ... 10 a.m. – National Funeral Service. 11 a.m. – A departure ceremony from Washington National Cathedral. 11:15 a.m. – The ...

This year, the presidential inauguration took place on the federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. President Trump fully exploited the opportunity, hijacking King’s memory to ...

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

Rosa Parks worked in Conyers’ office from 1965 until her retirement ... After King was assassinated, Wonder — still a teenager living in Detroit — attended the funeral and talked to his congressman, ...

The church – where abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s funeral was held and Rosa Parks’s casket was brought – was packed with supporters. Trump intends to end DEI practices in the federal ...

Jeremy Mucha’s mother Jean (right), while visiting Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in Plains, Georgia, at Maranatha Baptist Church, the place of Carter’s final state funeral service this ... Rotunda in 2005 ...

The funeral marked more than the death and celebration ... people across time advocating for social justice, including Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou, a woman helping ...

Rosa Parks worked in Conyers’ office from 1965 ... Wonder — still a teenager living in Detroit — attended the funeral and talked to his congressman, Conyers, who was already pushing for ...