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Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Lieutenant D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott. She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott. This was a few months after her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated municipal bus in Montgomery, Alabama. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bill Would Make Rosa Parks Day First Federal Holiday Honoring Woman

by WI Web Staff February 11, 2025February 11, 2025

The Rosa Parks Day Act would make Dec. 1 a federal holiday commemorating Parks’ 1955 arrest and her pivotal role in the civil rights movement.

Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, stands with Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and President Joe Biden after Biden signed into law H.R. 55, the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act, in the White House Rose Garden on March 29. (Cheriss May/The Washington Informer)

Biden Signs Anti-Lynching Bill into Law

by Stacy M. Brown March 29, 2022March 30, 2022

Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty testifies as an independent witness during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 24, 2022.

Confirmation Hearings for Supreme Court Nominee Jackson Wrap with Independent Witnesses

by Stacy M. Brown March 24, 2022March 24, 2022

**FILE** Judge J. Michelle Childs (Courtesy of the University of South Carolina School of Law)

Judge J. Michelle Childs Heads List of Supreme Court Nominees

by Stacy M. Brown February 2, 2022February 2, 2022

Black Leaders Unite Against Voter Suppression

by James Wright Jr. July 28, 2021December 21, 2021

Black Experience

Biden, Harris Meet for First Time with Congressional Black Caucus Members

by WI Guest Author April 14, 2021December 21, 2021

Dem Lawmakers Revive Homeownership Bill on Capitol Hill

by WI Guest Author February 26, 2021December 21, 2021

Op-Ed

MALVEAUX: What If Woman Didn’t Talk?

by WI Guest Author February 10, 2021December 21, 2021

Politics, Stacy M. Brown

CBC Elects Executive Committee for 117th Congress

by Stacy M. Brown December 4, 2020December 21, 2021

National, Stacy M. Brown

Congressional Black Caucus, NNPA Demand Stimulus Inclusion

by WI Guest Author April 23, 2020December 21, 2021