Parks championed fight against sexual violence of black women Most people know the story of Parks, a black, middle-aged seamstress who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in ...

Rosa Parks, who helped spark the American civil rights movement when she refused to relinquish her bus seat to a white man, has become the first woman whose body has been laid out in state in the ...

On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement.

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.

Perhaps foremost, “Mrs. Rosa Parks” highlights the selflessness of its subject and seeks to provide a detailed portrait of a woman who, through the vagaries of history, was frequently reduced ...

2-year-old black girl cuffed by white child for Rosa Parks reenactment at Florida day care By Yaron Steinbuch Published Dec. 20, 2023, 9:51 a.m. ET ...