WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – An effort in Congress to honor Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks could make Dec. 1 a new federal holiday. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus reintroduced their ...

Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, and Shomari Figures, D-Ala. introduced legislation to make Rosa Parks Day a federal holiday. The Rosa Parks Day Act would designate Dec. 1 as a federal holiday marking Parks ...

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 ...