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

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller, pivotal figures who fought for justice and inspired change ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Yellowing court records from the arrests of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the dawn of the modern civil rights era are being preserved and digitized after ...

Eight years after Parks’ death, on February 27, 2013, a statue of Parks was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Civil rights leader Fred Gray called for a second civil rights movement to address ongoing injustices faced by Black Americans. He urged continued action, echoing the late Congressman John Lewis' call ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday as it is a federal one. Created after overwhelming approval in Congress and being signed into a law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, MLK ...

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