Iris Rodriguez-Rosa is appointed as NYC's first Latina Parks Commissioner, succeeding Sue Donoghue, to manage the city's ...

Iris Rodriguez-Rosa has worked for the parks department since 1986, when Ed Koch was mayor. Now, she'll lead the agency.

These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...

Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 had its biggest television audience in 17 years. Alex Palou’s victory averaged 7.05 million viewers ...

which guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race. And that struggle continues today. It reminds me of what Rosa Parks said when asked why she wouldn’t move from her seat that day.

Rosa Parks, John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr. had ties to the center Highlander is known as a place where Civil Rights icons such as Rosa Parks and John Lewis received training. Parks ...

Rosa Parks was 42 and all of 5 feet tall in 1955 when she refused ... She was “tired of giving in” because of her race. Every bus was segregated by long tradition, she explained, with whites entitled ...

Rosa Parks mugshot in 1955 ... She says she still doesn't see race, just as she had on that bus more than 68 years ago. "And that’s the way my life is," she said. Gunter is working with ...

This Sunday, TriMet will mark what would have been Rosa Parks' 111th birthday by offering ... all people to opportunities regardless of their race or economic status. To their hopes and their ...

To honor Rosa Parks, KAT marked one seat on each bus on ... because teams will not play overage because they hit the next race team," Spratling said. "And so the players will get a phone call ...

The Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee will never die ... “No matter the age, race or educational background, we all have a duty and a responsibility to speak against injustice no matter ...

No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” — 1992's “Rosa Parks: My Story” “Differences of race, nationality or religion should not be used to deny any human being citizenship ...