That incident at the airport speaks volumes about the impact Rosa Parks had on America and the world. On Monday, Parks, who died in 2005, would have been 100 years old.

Civil rights icon Rosa Parks' role in the Montgomery bus boycott is the subject of 'Behind the Movement' movie for TV One. ... It reveals her background in activism, ...

In the past few days, news of Rosa Parks' "near-rape" has rippled through the media — in part because of a "newly found" six-page document in her own hand from the late 1950s, revealed by ...

In the Pathways to Freedom curriculum that is part of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute’s mission for 11 to 17-year-olds, she encourages youth to maintain self-respect and dignity by knowing ...

Rosa Parks is best remembered as the African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. It was 1955 in the segregated South and the start of the Montgomery bus boycott.

Beleaguered New York Rep. George Santos (R) compared himself to civil rights icon Rosa Parks in a podcast interview this week, as the first-term representative faces mounting calls to step down ...

Parks' legacy goes beyond the Dec. 1, 1955, arrest On Oct. 24, 2005, Parks died in Detroit. In her life, she was honored with the Martin Luther King Jr. Award and by the NAACP with the Spingarn Medal.

(CNN) — If you look closely, you can see a twinkle in her eye. The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the ...

You can tour Rosa Parks' room at the quirky O Street Mansion in DC The Civil Rights icon lived at the DuPont Circle museum for 10 years and formed a deep friendship with the founder. To stream ...

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.