The Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation, founded in 1980 by The Detroit News and the Detroit public school system, awards the scholarships to seniors who share the values of civil rights activist ...

awards the scholarships to seniors who share the values of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who sparked the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and spent her final years in Detroit. The foundation ...

Art and culture can change the world. With 'Culture Against Racism - Women Changing the World', we want to give voice to ...

A woman's fight against racist zoning 50 years ago kicked off New Jersey's effort to create a "fair share" of affordable ...

French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert received the honorary Golden Alexander award at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: In honor of Black History Month, The Charlotte Observer is highlighting the lives and accomplishments ... where civil rights icon Rosa Parks eulogized him at his funeral.

Perkins joined the show during WDET's Spring Fundraiser to sound the alarm about the importance of supporting local, accurate ...

We all know our share of powerful women. From mothers and grandmothers to teachers and leaders, the women in our lives shape ...

Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with ...

When she was 15, she was arrested for not giving her seat up to a white woman 9 months before Rosa Parks.

Judge Keith, who died in 2019 at the age of 96, issued numerous landmark rulings that championed equality and civil rights.

The longtime NAACP New York State Conference leader broke glass ceilings and offered endless guidance and wisdom.