The Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation, founded in 1980 by The Detroit News and the Detroit public school system, awards the scholarships to seniors who share the values of civil rights activist ...

A Richland High School senior has won a prestigious recognition from Princeton University for her work reviving the school’s ...

awards the scholarships to seniors who share the values of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who sparked the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and spent her final years in Detroit. The foundation ...

Art and culture can change the world. With 'Culture Against Racism - Women Changing the World', we want to give voice to ...

French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert received the honorary Golden Alexander award at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival ...

We all know our share of powerful women. From mothers and grandmothers to teachers and leaders, the women in our lives shape ...

Perkins joined the show during WDET's Spring Fundraiser to sound the alarm about the importance of supporting local, accurate ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: In honor of Black History Month, The Charlotte Observer is highlighting the lives and accomplishments ... where civil rights icon Rosa Parks eulogized him at his funeral.

Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with ...

during the early 1960s. The award went to Robert Houston and Robert Hudson, filmmakers previously nominated for a short about Rosa Parks two years earlier. They accepted the award while standing ...

A woman's fight against racist zoning 50 years ago kicked off New Jersey's effort to create a "fair share" of affordable ...

The longtime NAACP New York State Conference leader broke glass ceilings and offered endless guidance and wisdom.