What will our church do, if people in our congregation and community lose some or all of their Medicaid funding?” ...

I didn’t buy this house to sell for a profit. I wanted to make this my home,” said Ethel R. Lawrence, who fended off ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and early ’50s. Getting her political start with the Scottsboro Boys case in the ...

Join us for a screening of the Peabody Award-winning film, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. It tells the story of Rosa Parks’ radical politics and dedication to the Black freedom movement, as ...

PADUCAH — The Paducah-McCracken County NAACP will be hosting the 2025 Rosa Parks: Power of One Banquet ... healthcare, or family life — as she has said that the leadership of women has ...

On Saturday, March 8, the “Unite and Resist” women’s march will be taking place at Rosa Parks Circle. Organizers Lauren Ann Coman, Cheryl Miller and Samantha Lint will be working with the grassroots ...

The Rosa Parks Federal Building ... She later moved to Detroit, where she remained for the rest of her life, working for former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit. A smaller federal building ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday picked Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th Ward) to lead the Chicago Park District, elevating one of his closest allies on the Chicago City Council to oversee the city’s 600 ...

Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) as superintendent and CEO of the city’s parks system. As the Sun-Times reported this week, Ramirez-Rosa replaces Rosa Escareno, who by leaving the post avoids being ...

But it’s time to take a system that includes 26 miles of lakefront beaches to the next level, Ramirez-Rosa says. “My conversation with the mayor has been around his priorities for the 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 ...

So to correct decades of mythologizing, Theoharis has authored the first-ever comprehensive biography of Parks, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Parks was born in Tuskegee, Ala. in 1913, into ...