On December 1, the 50th anniversary of the day Rosa Parks, a small, middle-aged African American seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give her seat on city bus to a white man, Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus reserved the first seat on each of its buses in her name.
Parks’ arrest sparked a bus boycott that, in turn, set the civil rights movement in America in motion.
Parks died two months ago.
Most election years see some kind of battle over the way propositions are worded on the ballot. But rarely has one of these fights been more vital to the eventual outcome than the one now […]
The Oregon football team is scheduled to participate in the Beef Bowl today at Lawry’s The Prime Rib in Beverly Hills, one day before its opponent in Thursday’s 101st Rose Bowl Game, Florida State. The […]
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