As Election Day approaches, columnist Mike Daly reflects on the Civil Rights Movement that was grounded in securing voting ...

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

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

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

Young ran for Congress, winning in 1972 before being appointed as ambassador to the United Nations by President Jimmy Carter.

Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of ...

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The event is part of a multinational effort to expand access to one of the most exclusive, elite sports. In recent years, ...