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For some visitors, Faith Ringgold’s newest exhibition at the High Museum will transport them back decades. For others, it will capture them in their present moment. But regardless of their stage in ...
Rosa Parks has been gone for nearly 20 years. Her legacy lives on, and now the City of Detroit wants to ensure her longtime ...
- Yeah, you have other important markers from this time at the museum, I'm not sure everyone knows about that, but, of course, I've been to the museum and sat on the bus where Rosa Parks also sat ...
We have the Rosa Parks Bus Station right in our downtown area." Friday nights in summer mean concerts at Denton Green Park, where the music runs the gamut from jazz to R&B, gospel to reggae and more.
Parks attended a workshop there on integration in 1955, about six months before she famously refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She always credited Highlander with ...
The Rosa Parks building at 985 Michigan Ave. at the western edge of downtown Detroit abutting the Lodge Freeway houses offices for the IRS, the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Navy ...
There's a new effort to create a federal holiday in honor of Rosa Parks.U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell held a news conference Wednesday, Feb. 5, to announce introduction of a bill that would designate ...
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 ...
Maher compared the act of refusing to spend holidays with Trump voters to "not letting certain people sit with you on the bus" as a photo of Rosa Parks flashed on the screen, drawing groans from ...
This woman defied the bus driver even though she knew that under the segregation law of Montgomery and Alabama, bus drivers had police powers. Rosa Parks was arrested.