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Rosa Parks

Voting Rights

Why we still need the Voting Rights Act

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer
OPINION - I will never forget watching President Obama unveil the statue of one of my personal heroes in Statuary Hall last week – allowing civil rights icon Rosa Parks to take her rightful place in our nation’s Capitol...
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Workers ride a Palestinian-only bus en route to the West Bank from Tel Aviv on Monday. (Ariel Schalit / AP)

'A Palestinian Rosa Parks is needed': Israel's segregated bus outrage

Martin Fletcher, Correspondent, NBC News
TEL AVIV -- For a country fighting allegations of racism and apartheid against its Arab citizens, introducing a "Palestinian-only" bus line for workers entering Israel from the West Bank may not be the smartest move...
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Statue honoring the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Rosa Parks statue unveiled at Capitol

Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there's plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family.
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In this handout from The White House, US President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event April 18, 2012 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Photo by Pete Souza/White House Photo via Getty Images)

Obama: Rosa Parks statue dedication a 'powerful moment'

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the dedication in the Capitol of a statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks will be a 'powerful moment'...
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President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, Mich., April 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Obama to speak at unveiling of Rosa Parks statute

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theGRIO REPORT - President Obama will speak Wednesday at a ceremony unveiling a statue at the Capitol honoring civil rights icon Rosa Parks...
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The Rosa Parks commemorative stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service honoring of civil rights icon Rosa Parks is unveiled February 4, 2013 at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. The stamp went on sale February 4, 2013, what would have been Rosa Park's 100th birthday. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

US Postal Service issues special Rosa Parks stamp

Mike Householder, Associated Press
DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) - The U.S. Postal Service has issued a special Rosa Parks stamp on what would have been the late civil rights icon's 100th birthday...
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Rosa Parks commemorative stamp (US postal service)

Rosa Parks honored with 100th birthday US postage stamp

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theGRIO REPORT - Rosa Parks, the late legendary civil rights activist, is received a special honor this year to commemorate what would have been her 100th birthday...
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American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) speaks at a press conference for Clergy & Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, held at the Belmont Plaza Hotel, New York City, January 12, 1968. He announced the Poor People's March On Washington at this event. (Photo by John Goodwin/Getty Images)

MLK estate sues family of ex-secretary

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. Martin Luther King's estate has recently filed a lawsuit against Maude Ballou, the late leader's secretary during the Civil Rights Movement, over documents she currently posses...
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Ted Nugent speaks Republican John Raese speaks supporters during a rally for his U.S. Senate campaign October 30, 2010 in Charleston, West Virginia. (Photo by Randy Snyder/Getty Images)

Ted Nugent calls gun owners the new Rosa Parks

Morgan Whitaker, Politics Nation
POLITICS NATION - Ted Nugent is known for making controversial and even threatening statements, and now he’s comparing gun owners to the civil rights icon Rosa Parks...
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American religious leader and civil rights activist Reverrend Al Sharpton (left), Tawana Brawley, and attorney C. Vernon Mason, hold hands outside the State Supreme Court, New York, New York, July 20, 1990. The trio, at the court to attend the so-called 'Central Park Jopgger' trial, had been involved in a another high-profile rape case when, in the late 1980s, Brawley accused six men of kidnapping and rape. (Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images)

Tawana Brawley 25 years later: Controversial NYC case still unsettled

Ronda Racha Penrice
theGRIO REPORT - Twenty five years ago 15-year-old Tawana Brawley was reportedly found dazed and confused lying in a garbage bag with torn and burned clothing, feces smeared over her body and 'KKK,' 'ni**er,' and 'b*tch' written on her torso...
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