Luther Keith, the civic-minded Detroit native who broke racial barriers over a 30-plus-year career with The Detroit News ...

Directed by Phylicia Rashad, the new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins heaps various resentments and revelations onto the stage ...

If you’ve been on the lookout for some truly inspiring reads for the young girls (and boys) in your life, you’ve come to ...

Since being the European Capital of Culture in 2011, Turku’s spirit of civic and cultural ambition demonstrate a desire to ...

A Bay Area artist in Richmond has been stealthily building and placing fairy houses around his neighborhood. His creations ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice of yoga, lying on her stomach and pulling her feet ...

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 ...

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal ...

Many have heard a simplified version of the Rosa Parks story, as an isolated incident in which she refused to give up her seat because she was tired, ultimately resulting in bus desegregation. In ...