Rosa Parks would have turned 112 this weekend. Twenty years after her death, her legacy in the face of Jim Crow laws and her dedication to non-violent civil rights change is continuing to be honored.

In 1944, a group of eight Howard University students took a stand against the status quo in segregated Virginia. Now, a ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Now the home of the National Civil Rights Museum, this historic structure not only ...

February is Black History Month, an appropriate time for celebrating the struggles, triumphs and contributions of this nation’s African American citizens. Born in February were President Abraham ...

On what would have been Rosa Parks' 112th birthday, U.S. Representatives Terri A. Sewell of Alabama, Joyce M. Beatty of Ohio, ...

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?

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

Rep. Terri Sewell today described her proposed holiday as counter measure to what she called an attack on diversity and Black history by President Donald Trump’s administration.

WELL, TODAY PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE STATE ARE HONORING THE LIFE OF ROSA PARKS. IT’S THE 25TH ANNUAL ... WHERE RACIAL SEGREGATION WAS NOT ONLY THE LAW OF THE LAND, BUT IT WAS EGREGIOUSLY PRACTICED ...

Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...