While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

The Equal Justice Initiative, the organization behind Montgomery's National Memorial for Peace and Justice, is now opening ...

Officials tasked with securing the 2026 World Cup wanted FIFA's International Broadcast Center at Fair Park. Of course, that ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story widely since Dec. 1, 1955, when she was arrested and jailed for ...

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal ...

In the late 1980s, Thelma was working as a teller at First Security Bank (now Chase Bank) on Park Avenue when I learned that she had an impressive collection of her father’s photographs. (Her father ...

His protest was both a rejection of the idea that human life is expendable and an acknowledgment that, for so many, it ...

Community and environment rankings used data on divorce rates, hate-crime incidents, average weather and acres of outdoor space and parks. In individual category rankings, Santa Rosa scored ...

The Austin Creek State Recreation Area is open to the public after more than four years of wildfire recovery efforts, ...

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