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Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...
From pig ears to "white sauce" to the legendary ribs that fed the civil rights movement, Alabama has a diverse and tangy ...
From pig ears to "white sauce" to the legendary ribs that fed the civil rights movement, Alabama has a diverse and tangy culinary history. Here are the best places to get a taste.
For the past seven years, the Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium has traveled around Alabama, sharing lesser-known stories of the civil rights movement.
A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil ...
This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...
A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died.
At the heart of the outrage? The timing. Target’s donation comes in the middle of a national boycott sparked by its rollback ...
From a Memphis fried chicken joint to a tamale counter in Jackson, these restaurants didn't just feed civil rights leaders – they funded, sheltered and fuelled the fight for equality.
But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...
Black churches have played an integral part in fighting for civil rights. Black leaders say it should come as no surprise the ...