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[…] Smith (“American Gangster”). The film is slated to premiere in time for Black History Month 2018. Behind the Movement is a unique and fast-paced retelling of how Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat launched the history-making Montgomery Bus Boycott. The film will reveal the untold story of how a group of everyday people […]

*Who doesn’t know the name Rosa Parks? Her name is arguably the most famous in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. And with what Ms. Parks has often stated was an uninvited wealth of fame, saying she simply did what she did because she was tired (I met her and these words came from […]

[…] the action on lower Broadway, which offers wall-to-wall bars and restaurants with live music, many of which are owned by famous country singers, including Miranda Lambert’s Casa Rosa and Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row. Stop at the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to really steep yourself in Nashville’s […]

*As Black History Month continues, TV One is geared up to air its original film “Behind the Movement,” the story behind how Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat to a white person sparked the historic Montgomery bus boycotts in December of 1955.   The film stars Meta Golding as Rosa Parks (“The Hunger […]

Rosa Parks *Midwest Memorial Group, which owns 28 cemeteries including Woodlawn, where Rosa Parks’ gravestone lies, has issued a warning to all “Pokemon Go” users, according to TMZ. Cemetery officials have reportedly asked players to keep off the premises while in their quest to capture a sighting of a ghastly apparition. The Pokemon search […]

[…] exceptional entertainment but broadens the landscape with multicolored brushes. In “Rosa,” the third episode, Doctor Who and her companions time travel to racially charged  Montgomery, Alabama and meet Rosa Parks. The group attempts  to “keep history in order” in the face of a mysterious figure seemingly trying to disrupt Park’s famous protest against the state’s segregated transportation. […]

[…] member of President Donald Trump’s task force to reopen the country, is catching heat for comparing the protestors who are defying stay-at-home orders, to civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Because 400 years of slavery and oppression and Jim Crow laws that sometimes included lynching is obviously similar to a month of self-isolating at home.  Rosa […]

Urana McCauley and Rosa Parks (TMZ) *Both Rosa Parks and Dr. David Dao famously refused to give up their seats and were hauled away by force, but comparing the United Airlines passenger to the woman whose Dec. 1, 1955 stand against racial discrimination fueled the burgeoning civil rights movement is unacceptable…according to Parks’ niece. Urana McCauley […]

[…] The blackbird Experiential Project is currently in development. McCoo and Davis also released “Ticket to Ride,” another single from the upcoming album, which honors civil rights icons Rosa Parks and her husband, Raymond Parks. “Ticket To Ride” is available to download as an Instant Grat track with a pre-order of the album and streamable on […]

[…] slavery, Tubman advocated for the creation of schools and educational institutions for the Black community. She also actively participated in women’s rights activism. American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks poses as she works as a seamstress, shortly after the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, in Montgomery, Alabama, in February 1956. (Photo by Don Cravens/Getty […]

[…] at the South Carolina statehouse last Saturday. Now, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, has compared Bree to Rosa Parks. In a statement filled with praise, Barber said: “ stands in a long tradition … Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and more recently hundreds of protesters in […]

[…] some of the lesser-known, unsung heroes of the civil rights movement like E.D Nixon and Jo Ann Robinson, who worked behind the scenes alongside icons like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and  Rosa Parks to plan and execute the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Their courageous actions sparked a movement that changed the course of American history.” An overview of TV One’s Black History […]

Claudette Colvin *And that’s exactly what we’re doing…tellin‘. We’ve all heard about the courageous act of Rosa Parks on that hot summer day in 1955, after getting off work, dog-tired, and when the white man told her to get up out of her sear so a white woman could sit down, she pretty much told […]

[…] January 14, 2018, at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, TV One held a screening for “Behind The Movement.” This film is the story of how Rosa Parks and leaders of the NAACP planned the Montgomery Bus Boycott in only three days. In the movie, you will get a closer look at some of […]

*Tonight, Sunday, February 11 at 7pm Eastern, TV One will premiere “Behind the Movement,” the anticipated back story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This story shows how Rosa Parks and a few lesser known leaders of the NAACP planned the Montgomery Bus Boycott in only three days. In the movie, you will get a closer […]