Rosa Parks' former home in Detroit has earned a local historic designation. Police are continuing investigation of a shooting on a DDOT bus Tuesday. Weather and other top stories.

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The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a local historic district.

A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil rights icon Rosa Parks and her husband, Raymond, as a local historic ...