Affectionately known as the “mother of the civil rights movement,” Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913. She will forever exemplify civil disobedience and defiance—especially to Black ...

In the late 1990s, Outkast released their single “Rosa Parks,” named after the civil rights activist. It was one of the best singles off of their album, Aquemini. However, the rap duo’s music did not ...

After a federal appeals court ruled in May that Rosa Parks could appeal a lawsuit she filed against Outkast over their hit song that uses her name in the title, a judge has reinstated most of the ...

An aging Rosa Parks is at the center of a legal battle about a hip-hop song that refers to her famous refusal to sit at the back of a bus. Now her health records will be released in response to a ...

Rosa Parks is often called the mother of the modern day civil rights movement. Her refusal to stand up on a city bus so a ...

In Montgomery, Alabama, a statue of Rosa Parks stands just blocks from the State Capitol. At her feet, granite markers memorialize four other women, but the monument offers little else about them.