Rosa Parks

Jamon Jordan is an educator and a historian, and has been telling Detroit's story for a long time. Now the city has named him its own official City Historian.

For many Michiganders, summer used to mean a stop at Boblo Island. Trips to the amusement park island on the Canadian side of the Detroit River ended in…

The Rosa Parks Collection has been digitized by the Library of Congress and is now available online. It is made up of 10,000 letters, writings, and…

Streets in Detroit have many origins. They’re named after civil rights leaders, forts from the 1820s, cities in other states, and early leaders in…

Rosa Parks is widely known as a civil rights icon. Many of us can pull up that image of her sitting on a bus gazing out the window, her eyes fixed on…

I suppose I must have been one of many who, years ago, went to see Congressman John Conyers in his Detroit office and was greeted by a pleasant…

In 2005, the Daub and Firmin Sculpture Studio of California was commissioned to create a bronze statue of Rosa Parks.Parks, who would have been 100 this…

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks.She was small in stature, quiet, humble, and yet a woman who made a giant mark on the pages…

The following is a summary of an audio segment. To hear the complete segment, click the audio above.Today marks the 100th birthday of civil rights leader,…

This photo of President Barack Obama sitting on the Rosa Parks Bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn is making the rounds on Facebook today.WDIV's Guy…