The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...

A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil ...

Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor ...

A BHS basketball coach's demand that a player cut his hair and quit a Black student organization in 1970 exposed racial ...

While the history of Black Americans and transportation justice began with forced movement in slavery and attempts at ...

Four short years after the recognition of a holiday commemorating freedom, it feels like Black people are less free.

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 ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

Rosa Parks, age 42, was commuting home from her job as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store on Dec. 1, 1955, when she boarded a Montgomery city bus.

"Rosa Parks' husband had a car and she took the bus just to be messy," one Threads user wrote. Social media posts spreading the claim were sometimes accompanied by a picture of Rosa and Raymond ...