Second-grade students at Anderson Elementary School performed in an annual Black history event that included songs, dance and poetry. The program Friday was named “Celebrating a Rich History,” with ...

The Laurel County African American Heritage Center hosted a day of festivities Saturday, bringing the community together to celebrate history and unity. Particularly, residents joined together to ...

She continued to act in local church and theater productions, including "Birds of a Feather," where she played Rosa Parks. Bishop also was a prolific poet who loved to share poetry with people.

With more local history made this week — first Black Urbana mayor elected (DeShawn Williams), first Black Champaign Central principal appointed (Montia Gardner) — we’re rebooting a question we asked ...

Like Rosa Parks sitting on that bus seat she was told ... Fashion. Sports. Music. Poetry. Literature. And so many other things. Dignity and Pride. Forever part of Black culture.

It’s interesting to note that Ms. Eloise was born two years before Negro History Week was created by Carter G. Woodson and ...

“The young kids can come and sing, dance, site poetry. They can come and just feel free and celebrate our heritage.” Attendees could learn about Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Dr. Mae Jemison ...

In this article, I invite you to commemorate the lives of women who faced segregation and racism, fought for independence and civil rights, and advocated for dignity, inclusion, and the feminist ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal ...

The administration also said it was seeking to offload federal buildings bearing the names of civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta and Rosa Parks in Detroit, and the Montgomery ...

or painting an elementary-school mural of Rosa Parks during Black History Month. But as Hagopian describes, the real goal of McMahon’s memo is to sow fear in teachers and administrators about ...