An effort in Congress to honor Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks could make Dec. 1 a new federal holiday. Members of the ...

With a brand-new federal holiday proposal, Americans could soon have an additional day off between Thanksgiving and Christmas.The day, December 1, would be in honor of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks ...

Conyers, a former labor attorney, had been elected to Congress in 1964. One of his campaign workers was civil rights icon Rosa Parks, arrested nearly a decade prior in Montgomery, Alabama ...

January 24, 2025 • Today on the Newswrap from In Focus, Todd Stacy, host of Alabama Public Television's Capitol Journal, reports that congress has passed the Laken Riley Act. And Todd's wildcard ...

San Bernardino transit agencies will celebrate Transit Equity Day in honor of Black seamstress Rosa Parks, whose stand against segregation in 1955 changed American history. According to the San ...

(Library of Congress) Closer to home in Westminster ... Nov. 25, 2024 photograph of the Troy State Rosa Parks Library and Museum, Montgomery, Alabama. This is the location where Rosa Parks ...

The legislation, sponsored by the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress (MDSC), will require ... FEBRUARY 4TH IS NOW ROSA PARKS DAY (H 3075): Healey signed into law a bill establishing February ...

As of 2023, more than half of states across the U.S. recognize Juneteenth as a permanent state holiday, according to the Pew Research Center.

That came two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and months after Congress passed the ... honoring civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, describing it as a counter ...