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

Grand Rapids community gathers at Rosa Parks Circle to honor Breonna Taylor with a memorial featuring a dove release.

On International Women's Day, mothers and daughters from across West Michigan poured into Rosa Parks Circle, celebrating past ...

Memorial services for Dr. Hazel Dukes, a trailblazing civil rights leader, will start Tuesday in Harlem. A public viewing ...

The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...

Johnson argued that Legins-Costley "championed racial justice as effectively as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Rosa Parks." Legins-Costley was born in 1813 in Kaskaskia, then the capital of ...

If there were any doubts about the human capacity to marginalize and suppress, Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom” is an excellent reminder. From the lead-up to 1954 — when the U.S. Supreme Court handed ...

For the first time ever, images of black bear cubs have been captured by wildlife cameras in a park in the North Bay.

Rosa Parks: Catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement Rosa Parks, born in 1913, became an iconic figure in the American Civil Rights Movement when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a ...

More than 40 California cities should be kept in mind when observing St. Patrick's Day as they were named among the best ...

Sara Coleridge, daughter of Samuel Coleridge the poet, wrote verses for children during the mid-1800s and amongst her ditties about gardens and flowers that bloom each month, she is perhaps most ...