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 ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice of yoga, lying on her stomach and pulling her feet ...

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.

Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city bus system on December 21, 1956© Getty Images ...

In the end, Rosa Parks was never about the building in which the school resided. It was about the lives restored and saved. “It was like church. Church isn’t the building you go to.

Parks moved to Detroit in 1957 and remained active in the civil rights movement throughout the 1960s. According to the NAACP, she advocated for fair housing and helped investigate the murders of ...

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (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 ...

For example, the legacy of yoga continued in the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute (for Self-Development), which was established in 1987 in Detroit,” Evans said in her email.

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.