Up Close sits down with Iris Rodriguez-Rosa to discuss her appointment, what it means for the community and what she hopes to do during her tenure as parks commissioner.

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a local historic district.

Rosa Parks has been gone for nearly 20 years. Her legacy lives on, and now the City of Detroit wants to ensure her longtime home will live on, as well.

The Michigan high school seniors are the latest recipients of scholarships honoring civil rights activist Rosa Parks.

How to honor the Black women who resisted before Rosa Parks? In song, naturally The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres ...

Daily Arts writers explore Beyoncé’s performances, West Village girls, some celebrity’s panties and much more.

Many of the features you see in the national parks today look the same as when your ancestors visited, even if the way we visit these lands has changed.

The new 4401 Rosa Parks Apartments, shown in this rendering, will feature a four-story building with 40 one-bedroom and 20 two-bedroom apartments.

Since at least 2024, social media users have claimed that Raymond Parks, the husband of civil rights/ bus boycott activist Rosa Parks, had a car. One post on X from May 2025 that repeated the ...

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