Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor ...

Pauli Murray, the first Black woman to be ordained by the Episcopal Church, was an advocate for women’s rights and racial ...

While the history of Black Americans and transportation justice began with forced movement in slavery and attempts at ...

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a ...

What brings me hope is knowing sexual violence and abuse are not inevitable. We can change and prevent these in our lives and ...

Which is why the arrest of David Huerta ... "Something is different." Rosa Parks was just a woman on a bus, she pointed out, until she was something more. George Floyd was just another Black man ...

Unions in California are different from many in the U.S. because they are predominately people of color and immigrants. The arrest of a union president in L.A. will likely activate these unions to ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

Traffic crashes skyrocket in 1924, Prohibition ends in 1933, Rosa Parks’ arrest sparks boycott in 1955, New Castle County school desegregation in 1993 ...

The Rosa Parks Day Act, a bill that would make Dec. 1, the date Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man, a federal holiday, has obtained the backing of the ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus after work in Montgomery, Alabama, and sat down.As the bus filled with passengers, the driver demanded the 42-year-old seamstress move further back ...