The administration also said it was seeking to offload federal buildings bearing the names of civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta and Rosa Parks in Detroit, and the Montgomery ...

Services for Rosa Lee Newton, 85, Lawrence, are pending and will be announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. She died March 1, 2025, at her home. rumsey-yost.com ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

About 10 employees were confirmed to have been terminated from Texas national parks with the recent federal cuts. While that number may seem minuscule, implications for park visitors could be far ...

From a very young age, Ramirez-Rosa’s parents instilled in him the value of hard work and the importance of standing up for his community. “My parents always told me since I was little that a ...

Population Study: Early life growth is related to pubertal growth and adult height – a QEPS-model analysis. Image Credit: Anton Vierietin / Shutterstock In a recent study in the journal ...

The Kenya Wildlife Service oversees twenty-five national parks, twenty-nine national reserves, six national wildlife sanctuaries, six marine national reserves, four marine national parks, and three ...

and she was their teacher until Rosa was eleven.” By the time Parks was an adult, yoga had grown in popularity among movie stars and artists. Around this time, a yoga teacher named Indra Devi ...

The day, December 1, would be in honor of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has been proposed by Representative Terri Sewell of Alabama. Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Parks ...

There are plenty of women to choose from: Frida Kahlo, the artist; Rosa Parks, the civil rights activist; Marie Curie, the scientist; Amelia Earhart, the pilot; Jane Goodall, the biologist ...