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

Power of One Banquet is set for Saturday, and the guest speaker for this year's event is Stacey A. Watson, a museum program ...

The Paducah-McCracken County NAACP will be hosting the 2025 Rosa Parks: Power of One Banquet at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 15, ...

The Laurel County African American Heritage Center hosted a day of festivities Saturday, bringing the community together to celebrate history and unity. Particularly, residents joined together to ...

Dorothy Gilliam: Dorothy Gilliam is an American journalist and the first African-American female reporter at The Washington ...

It’s interesting to note that Ms. Eloise was born two years before Negro History Week was created by Carter G. Woodson and ...

Williams lived in Michigan until he died of Hodgkin’s Disease in 1996 at age 71. He was buried in Monroe, where civil rights icon Rosa Parks eulogized him at his funeral.

“Honoring Rosa Parks with a new federal holiday will ensure that her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement and to American history are never forgotten.” While several states have adopted ...

A significant migration trend is unfolding as increasing numbers of African Americans are choosing to leave the United States in search of a more welcoming environment abroad. This movement ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged ... Then in 1964, Parks became a deaconess in the African Methodist Episcopal ...