Rosa Parks left a legacy of change the United States and the rest of the world.  She died in late October 2005 here in Detroit.

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

DETROIT — Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday evening. She was 92. Mrs. Parks died at her home during the evening of ...

DETROIT — Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday evening. She was 92. Parks died at her home during the evening of ...

In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill Haley's hit "Rock Around the Clock" around the clock, Billy Wilder's ...

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

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 ...

The civil rights icon left behind more than 8,000 pieces of memorabilia. May 18, 2012 — -- A Michigan attorney is alleging that a judge and two lawyers have executed a plan to "raid and bankrupt" ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — This Sunday, TriMet will mark what would have been Rosa Parks' 111th birthday by offering free bus and MAX train rides. Parks — who was a lifelong activist and known as the Mother of ...

Washington ― The U.S. House voted Wednesday to approve legislation renaming a federal building in Detroit for the civil rights icon Rosa Parks, sending it to President Joe Biden's desk for signature.

Washington ― Two Michigan Democrats are pushing conflicting legislation in Congress to name the same federal building in Detroit after two different late iconic figures from the African American ...