Rosa Parks and her impact on Alabama and Civil Rights history will be symbolized with a statue on the State Capitol grounds ...

Parks’ bravery during the Montgomery Bus Boycott inspired Alabamians and people around the world to fight for justice in the ...

The story of Rosa Parks has long been misrepresented and sanitized. Now it's also under threat of erasure. We correct the ...

The Alabama Academy of Honor consists of 100 living Alabamians who have made great contributions to the state. This year, ...

On the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest on a Montgomery bus, Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell is leading an effort in Congress to make Dec. 1 a federal holiday. In a speech Friday, Sewell asked all ...

Alabama officials are considering a bid to clear arrest records of civil rights icons Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, both convicted in the 1950s. Last week, The Root reported that 82 year ...

It comes 64 years after Parks was arrested for violating segregation laws. City officials in Montgomery, Alabama, unveiled a new statue of Rosa Parks on Sunday, exactly 64 years after the civil rights ...

More than a decade before Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, she was a sexual assault ...

Statues of Helen Keller and Rosa Parks were unveiled Friday morning on the Alabama Capitol grounds in Montgomery, making them ...

The monuments honoring the two famed native Alabamians will be the first statues of women on the lawn of the Alabama Capitol.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of Sam O'Hara, 35, naming Sgt. Devon Beck of the Ohio National ...