U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Selma, has proposed a bill that would make Dec. 1 a federal holiday commemorating the arrest of Rosa Parks. Sewell bill has the backing of the Congressional Black Caucus. The ...

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

Rosa Parks Day would mark the first federal holiday to honor a Black woman, or any woman, period, in American history. The Rosa Parks Day Act, a bill that would make Dec. 1, the date Rosa Parks was ...

Four days of celebration and reflection are coming this weekend with the 68th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the legacy of civil rights icon Rosa Parks — who famously refused to give ...

Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat 60 years ago today. — -- Dec. 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks became an icon for change. That was when the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights ...

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

LANCASTER — Shortly after the new year began, Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill making Feb. 4 a day to set aside in honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in Massachusetts. The bill’s initiator, local ...

WASHINGTON — Metro is commemorating Rosa Parks Day and the historic icon who helped spark the Civil Rights Movement. Friday, every bus in the Metrobus fleet will feature a reserved seat in her honor.

LANCASTER — The first Rosa Parks Day in Massachusetts was celebrated Tuesday evening at the Bulfinch Meetinghouse, providing a dose of comfort during a time of great political turmoil that centers on ...

Gov. Maura Healey designated Feb. 4 in Massachusetts as Rosa Parks Day, in celebration of the civil rights activist’s legacy of advocating for racial equality and change. Lawmakers filed a bill ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - St. Paul AME Church, the home church of Rosa Parks, will hold a celebration for the 6th Annual Rosa Parks Day in Alabama. In 2018, the Alabama Legislature voted in favor of ...

Rosa Parks Day celebrates the legacy of Rosa Parks, a woman who is a symbol of equality, civil rights, and the American Civil Rights Movement. The holiday is celebrated on either February 4, her ...