TriMet will once again waive bus and MAX train fares for an entire day next week in honor of celebrated civil rights leader Rosa Parks. All public transit rides will be free Tuesday, Feb. 4 — the same day Parks was born in 1913. In 1955, Parks, who was Black, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.

Darcangelo, a Fitchburg resident and minister of the First Church of Lancaster, Unitarian Universalist, was on a mission to get state recognition for his hero, the late Rosa Parks

On Saturday, Feb. 1, Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum will host a celebration of the civil rights figure’s life and legacy in honor of what would have been her 112th birthday. The event will include free admission to the museum and special programs honoring Parks’ life and legacy.

The legendary attorney, who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., will have his portrait hang permanently at the museum.

Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday.

More than 1,400 attendees enjoyed the sold-out DuPage County “I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King Jr. Unity breakfast on Monday, Jan. 20, with the program commemorating Dr. King’s legacy of

Rosa Parks Breakfast will be held next Sat., Feb. 1, at 9 a.m. at Greater Mount Triumph Missionary Baptist Church. The breakfast, which is sponsored by the Yellow Hats Society, is held each year to celebrate the contribution of Parks and other prominent African Americans in history.

In Harlem, New York, while signing copies of his first book, “Stride Toward Freedom,” Izola Ware Curry stabbed King with a letter opener between his heart and lung. He was taken to Harlem Hospital where his physician, Dr. Aubré D. Maynard, said, “If you had sneezed, your aorta would have been punctured and you would have drowned in your own blood.”

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the face of a movement that transformed a country in which 10% of its people were living as second-class citizens into a country that better reflects the

At the John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center Monday morning, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Westside Coalition hosted its 40th anniversary celebration, highlighting the women of the Civil Rights Movement as its theme.