It's Black History Month and the Up First newsletter wants to highlight local history makers. Do you know anyone who has made ...

Rosa Parks was actively involved in civil rights work long before the famous bus incident. She joined the NAACP in 1943. McDonalds Black History Month - 360Wise ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave ... a voter initiative reinstated the King holiday. Supporters took a victory lap the next MLK Day with a packed arena concert attended by Wonder and other artists ...

EDWARDSVILLE - Community members gathered at SIUE to hear from Donzaleigh Abernathy, a speaker, actress, writer, activist, and the goddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Wednesday ...

President Biden removed it in 2021 in favour of a busts of trade union leader Cesar Chavez, and sculptures of civil rights leaders Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Churchill was said to have ...

20 (UPI) --The United States is paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy the same day ... AME Church where Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks are laid to rest. Sharpton, founder and ...

A congressman appeared to compare Donald Trump to Rosa Parks as he praised the 47th US president at a luncheon following his inauguration on Monday, 20 January. House majority leader Steve Scalise ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) -Jan. 20 marks Martin Luther King ... after the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955. Several events will occur throughout the nation honoring the late Dr. King. Below is a list of ...

But things amped up dramatically in 1955 — when the Montgomery bus boycott brought both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. into the spotlight, and the murder of Emmett Till was seared into ...

Held on the third Monday of January every year, Martin Luther King Day - also referred to ... which came about after Rosa Parks, the secretary of the local chapter of the National Association ...