In 1987, Parks cofounded a non-profit group, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, to help youths in Detroit. She also has traveled the country since her retirement to lecture ...

Civil rights activist Rosa Parks would have been 100 years old today. NPR's Celeste Headlee talks with listeners about the first time they learned about Parks and what she signifies today.

An act of civil disobedience 55 years ago -- Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of a city bus -- made the seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, a pivotal symbol in America's civil rights movement.

Julian Bond lectured to a history class on Rosa Parks and the origins of the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. An active participant and leader from the early days of the Civil Rights ...

Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. ... British social activist Annie Besant wrote the book “An Introduction to Yoga” as a collection of four lectures she gave on the practice in 1907.

Woman of steel: Rosa Parks memorial to be unveiled Wednesday at her museum Created by Ian Mangum,, it will be officially revealed Wednesday during Rosa Parks Day and Montgomery Bus Boycott's 66th ...

Wellesley College Professor Brenna Greer debunked some of the myths about Rosa Parks and the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott. She addressed that Parks was not the first African American woman who ...