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Things looked very different in Scotland seven decades ago. There was plenty going on in the world in 1955 - the year in which the civil rights movement in America was kickstarted by the Montgomery ...
By STEVE PFARRER For the Valley Advocate Along with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture, Rosa Parks is one of ...
Montgomery, Ala., is known as "the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement," dating to the 1955 boycott of the city bus system sparked by Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat. The Alabama capital's ...
Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...
When Pharrell Williams joined Louis Vuitton as the men’s creative director, he teamed up with multidisciplinary artist Henry Taylor for his debut collection. Taylor had a pre-existing relationship ...
From “The White Lotus” to white-hot controversy. K-pop superstar and Season 3 cast member Lisa made her Met Gala debut Monday night — and promptly found herself at the center of a firestorm. The ...
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott. Credit: Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. At a press ...
The deadline is approaching for graduating high school seniors to apply for the 2025 Rosa Parks Scholarship to help with their first year of college expenses. The Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation, ...
(WIB) – Reps. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, and Shomari Figures, D-Ala., have introduced legislation to make Rosa Parks Day a federal holiday. The Rosa Parks Day Act would designate Dec.
A daycare in Florida is facing major backlash after a white child pretending to be a cop handcuffed and fingerprinted a Black 2-year-old girl as part of a reenactment of the arrest of civil rights ...
Laketran and Geauga Transit, in partnership with the NAACP of Lake County, have continued recognizing the life and legacy of Rosa Parks — the civil rights activist who sparked the Montgomery Bus ...