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Despite efforts to reduce spending, payroll costs and operational expenses are rising, which will make it tough to make a dent in the longterm deficit unless the city moves forward with even deeper ...
Authorities are asking Santa Rosa residents not to call 911 Tuesday about visible smoke coming from the area around Shiloh ...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Thousands of protestors flooded onto Monroe Avenue NW and marched north towards Michigan Street in downtown Grand Rapids Saturday following a boisterous rally at Rosa Parks ...
While Rosa Parks’ death marked the loss of perhaps the most famous civil rights activist after Martin Luther King Jr., her contributions and goals are still celebrated two decades later. During a ...
“It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and early ’50s. Getting her political start with the Scottsboro Boys case in the ...
According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...
The Rosa Parks statue in Montgomery’s Court Square is not what you expect from a monument. That’s why I love it. There’s no pedestal. No stage. Nothing separating the viewer from Parks. It’s a ...
Stabenow, the delegation's most senior member, moved to name the Michigan Avenue building after Parks after the federal government announced in 2021 that it would be selling the now former Rosa ...
On the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest on a Montgomery bus, Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell is leading an effort in Congress to make Dec. 1 a federal holiday. In a speech Friday, Sewell asked ...