April 17, 2026
On This Day: Charlotte L. Brown Challenges Segregation in 1863
(AURN News) — On April 17, 1863, nearly a century before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, Charlotte L. Brown defied…
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February 4, 2026
Rosa Parks Remembered on Her Birthday
(AURN NEWS) — On this day, February 4, 1913, civil rights icon Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Decades later, on…
January 15, 2026
Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin Dies at 86
(AURN News) — According to The Associated Press, Claudette Colvin — whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery…
October 27, 2025
Rosa Parks will be honored with a statue at Alabama’s Capitol in Montgomery
Rosa Parks will be honored with a statue at Alabama’s Capitol in Montgomery — the first monument of a woman on the…
October 16, 2025
Marking 30 Years Since the Million Man March
(AURN News) — Thirty years ago today, on Oct. 16, 1995, the National Mall in Washington, D.C., became the site of one…
February 4, 2025
This Day in History: Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Born in 1913
On February 4, 1913, civil rights icon Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her defining moment came on December 1, 1955,…
November 13, 2024
This Day in History: Supreme Court Strikes Down Bus Segregation Laws in Alabama in 1956
On Nov. 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Alabama’s laws permitting segregation on public buses. The landmark decision marked a…
November 30, 2023
CBC Members Push for Federal Holiday Honoring Rosa Parks
Representative Terri Sewell of Alabama, joined by Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman Steve Horsford and other CBC members, is urging the passage…