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

Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913?

“Not a single federal holiday honors a woman,” said U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio.). Beatty said designating Dec. 1 as Rosa ...

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

ATLANTA - Black History Month is a time to honor the achievements, contributions, and resilience of Black Americans, and ...

HE WOULD ALSO BE THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER ... moments in Black History all month long. 1955 - Rosa Parks born. Parks famously refused to give up her seat to a white ...

Former Georgia Representative Julian Bond and Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver once said that when Rosa Parks chose ... of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola ...

(Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) Housed in Oakland’s former main library, this special reference library is home to 16,000 books by or about African ... to Dr. King, Rosa Parks or Malcolm ...