A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

In a historic debut at the Studebaker Theater, “She Who Dared” tells a story of pivotal figures who fought segregation ...

Iris Rodriguez-Rosa has worked for the department since 1986, most recently as first deputy commissioner. She is the first ...

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.

Today in History: May 31, the Tulsa Race Massacre begins ICE reorganizes ... they were indeed victims of a hate-motivated attack. Rosa Parks, John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr. had ties ...

By Neil Vigdor, Jonathan Weisman and Maggie Haberman Behind the scenes, one publisher went to great lengths to avoid mentions of race, even in the story of Rosa Parks. By Sarah Mervosh Claudette ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was sick of this type of thing we had to endure as a people because of our race," she later said in an interview with the BBC. Rosa Parks to BBC: 'When I refused to move, he had me arrested' The ...