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

Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

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

Rosa Parks' former home in Detroit has earned a local historic designation. Police are continuing investigation of a shooting ...

Two people were shot Friday morning in the area of Rosa Parks Circle. Officers were called for a large group of cars driving ...

Officers were called to Rosa Parks Circle at about 2 a.m. Friday, July 4, following reports of a large group and vehicles ...

Rosa Parks is an icon of the civil rights movement. But as historian Jeanne Theoharis recounts, she didn’t just get arrested once on a bus. Parks was a lifelong activist.

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) was listed on the program for the March on Washington. Congress called her "the first lady of civil rights." After she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a ...

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