Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...

The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

Rosa Parks' former home in Detroit has earned a local historic designation. Police are continuing investigation of a shooting ...

Rosa Parks is an icon of the civil rights movement. But as historian Jeanne Theoharis recounts, she didn’t just get arrested once on a bus. Parks was a lifelong activist.

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) was listed on the program for the March on Washington. Congress called her "the first lady of civil rights." After she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a ...

Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind yoga that connect the body and the mind.

A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil ...