Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...

Beyond well-known observances lies a rich tapestry of cultural commemorations honoring African American heritage, resilience, ...

I returned from Washington, DC last week with the surprising revelation that a vision for tomorrow’s tomorrow— which I feared ...

Nobel Peace Prize awardee Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, triggering riots across the US. His death shook ...

The truth of the matter is that white Americans, after having nearly wiped out all the Native Americans, never quite got over the outcome of the Civil War, which made it illegal for one person to own ...

Heroes it has no right to claim as its own Finally, while the Left today celebrates civil rights icons such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks ... bus in 1955 triggered the Montgomery Bus ...

“When I think about our ancestors who boycotted the bus ... bus boycott — a key event in the Civil Rights Movement that began in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955 after Rosa Parks refused ...

Rosa Parks was one of the first women in Montgomery to join the National Association for ... Community leaders called for a one day bus boycott for December 5, the day of her trial. When the boycott ...

MSNBC host Al Sharpton called for a boycott of companies such ... Now, if you want to put us back in the back of the bus, we going to do the Dr. King-Rosa Parks on you," Sharpton said.

a Black woman named Rosa Parks, sitting in the “no man’s land” of a Montgomery, Ala., bus, declined to relinquish her seat to a white rider as required by law. The refusal led to her arrest and the ...