Courtesy of Connecticut College Professor Maria Rosa, the Carol & George Milne Assistant Professor of Biology, has been awarded two grants totaling $4.8 million for further study and restoration of ...

The 31st Bronx Parks Speak-Up event took place at Lehman College in Bedford Park on Saturday Feb. 22. Funded by the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ) through a Con Edison environmental ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story widely since Dec. 1, 1955, when she was arrested and jailed for refusing ...

The Trump administration announced that two dozen federal properties in Michigan, including the Rosa Parks Federal Building, could be sold. The GSA claims that selling these properties could save ...

On Saturday, March 8, the “Unite and Resist” women’s march will be taking place at Rosa Parks Circle. Organizers Lauren Ann Coman, Cheryl Miller and Samantha Lint will be working with the grassroots ...

The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) is calling on the administration to immediately stop these reckless lease cancellations before they inflict even more damage on America’s national ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday picked Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th Ward) to lead the Chicago Park District, elevating one of his closest allies on the Chicago City Council to oversee the city’s 600 ...

Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) as superintendent and CEO of the city’s parks system. As the Sun-Times reported this week, Ramirez-Rosa replaces Rosa Escareno, who by leaving the post avoids being ...

“Parks are places where people can gather ... Cristina Pacione-Zayas, Johnson’s chief of staff, has known Ramirez-Rosa since college at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Rosa Parks, who would have turned 100 this month ... a political science professor at Brooklyn College, says that few appreciate — or even know about — the fullness of Parks’ activism throughout her ...