Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick ...

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and welcomed American presidents. It made history again this year: Thanks ...

Phyllis Shapiro was forever elegant and content to direct a vibrant household while her husband, attorney Everett Shapiro, ...

Local author David McGrath pays tribute to his late older sister, who he describes as going toe-to-toe with her brothers — ...

Robinson remained an active force in the community for over 54 years, and was honored as Petaluma Citizen of the Year in 1982 ...

Board of Education ended segregation in public schools, sparking widespread outrage. Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man led to organized protests and ...

Right, Jackie Robinson was just a baseball player; nothing special about him. Rosa Parks just loved to ride the bus. She was a commuter.” — JIMMY KIMMEL Flannery O’Connor’s caricature of ...

Koech cites civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks as well as other female trailblazers as inspirations, but she doesn’t shy away from the “hustle and hard work” her ...

Gray Institute for Human and Civil Rights National Symposium in Montgomery. As an attorney for Rosa Parks, the NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr., the Freedom Riders and others, Gray helped ...

Maria Isabel Rivera Rosa, better known as, “Isabel” transitioned into eternal life on Monday, March 10, 2025. She was 85 years old. She is survived by her spouse, Leoncio Rivera; daughter ...

Here's everything we know about the British indie rock legend's significant other Rosa Collier. Rosa Collier is an actress who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

Ethel R. Lawrence is known as 'the Rosa Parks of affordable housing.' The Ethel R. Lawrence Homes became the first affordable housing project in New Jersey’s suburbs designed to serve very low ...