Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

I didn’t buy this house to sell for a profit. I wanted to make this my home,” said Ethel R. Lawrence, who fended off ...

She died in 2005 in Detroit. “Parks was mindful and purposeful in her public presentation of peace work. For example, the legacy of yoga continued in the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute (for ...

Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle   Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers ...

A memorial service is planned for Thursday night at Rosa Parks Circle to honor Breonna Taylor, who was killed by police five years ago in Louisville.

While working on the lower register of her voice with New York City singer Paul Reese, who first turned her toward folk music. By the 1930s and ’40s, the genre was driven by Peter Seeger and the ...

Aretha Franklin's Rose Estate, a gorgeous 1927 home, is situated along the ninth hole of the Detroit Golf Club in the Palmer Woods neighborhood.