He tells host Scott Tong why — it was the day Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man.

For many people in Detroit, Rosa Parks was a neighbor, mentor, colleague and friend.

The award-winning journalist is the executive producer of a new documentary, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, which challenges the simplified narrative of a civil rights icon Based in Los ...

In 1955, Rosa Parks made civil rights history in the US when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. Segregation laws in ...

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Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

Rosa Parks would have celebrated her 107th birthday on Tuesday Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the brand since 2017, working as an intern, ...

Michele Norris talks with historian and Rosa Parks biographer Douglas Brinkley. They discuss civil rights icon Rosa Parks and her six-page handwritten account about surviving a rape attempt by a white ...

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Reporting from Washington — The black-and-white photograph of Rosa Parks on the bus looks familiar. She’s staring forward, reenacting her moment in history as if preparing for a place in a grade ...