The City of Montgomery, in collaboration with community partners, proudly announces a weeklong commemoration marking the 70th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, honoring the courage, unity, an ...

Advocates want a week-long spending freeze and work stoppage during major shopping period, with support from Rosie O'Donnell ...

More than a decade before Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, she was a sexual assault ...

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

A Blackout Black Friday isn’t a boycott. It is a benediction — a reminder that our worth is not measured by what we buy but by what we build together. It’s proof that we are still a nation capable of ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...

The monuments honoring the Alabama natives, whose advocacy helped dismantle racial segregation and promoted the rights of ...

Eight years after Parks' death, on February 27, 2013, her statue was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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

Statues of Helen Keller and Rosa Parks were unveiled Friday morning on the Alabama Capitol grounds in Montgomery, making them ...