On the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest, The Henry Ford will offer free museum admission, giving visitors a chance to see the actual bus where Parks refused to give up her seat.

The Cincinnati Opera will present an Afrofuturist-themed production next year that commemorates the Juneteenth holiday.

Congress has given final approval to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act now goes to President Joe Biden to sign into law.

Louis Vuitton has pulled out the stops to present the final collection of Virgil Abloh, the house’s first African-American designer who died in November after a two-year battle with cancer.

FILE - In this March 29, 2016, file photo, signs call attention to the house where slain African-American leader Malcolm X spent part of his childhood in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. According to the National Park Service the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in February 2021. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)BOSTON – Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The former Malcolm Little was a teenager in the 1940s when he came to live with his sister, Ella Little Collins. Little Collins, who was a civil rights organizer in her own right, became her brother’s legal guardian after his father died and his mother was institutionalized.

Fritz Pollard blazed a lot of trails for black football players.

She is the first woman, Black woman and Indian-American person to hold the office. READ: Biden inauguration: Viewer guide to Jan. 20, 2021For years, members of Alpha Kappa Alpha have been leading by example and setting the standard. We are beaming with excitement and pride,” said Great Lakes Regional Director Carrie J. Clark with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. “To ascend to the second-highest position as a woman, as a woman of color, and, oh by the way, as a woman of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. “Seeing Kamala Harris become the Vice President is not just Howard history or black history, it’s American history,” Townsel said.

In an open-ended question, those priorities far outpace others, like foreign affairs, immigration, climate change or racial inequality. In a reflection of the series of national traumas from last year, another issue moved sharply up Americans' priority list for 2021 — racial inequality. Even so, the impact of the virus dominates Adams' top issue: the economy. It remains a higher priority for Republicans, with 24% mentioning immigration, though that is down from 51% one year ago. Even as it falls lower on Americans’ priority list, Biden is expected to send a massive immigration overhaul bill to Congress on the first day of his presidency.

Pope Francis leaves at the end of a consistory ceremony where 13 bishops were elevated to a cardinal's rank in St. Peters Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020. Gregory also was one of the only new cardinals who kept his mask on when the group paid a singing courtesy visit to retired Pope Benedict XVI. He also eschewed a red cassock for Saturday's ceremony, using instead his brown hooded friar's robes covered with a white “rochet" vestment. The cardinals greeted Benedict, kissed his hand and sang a prayer as the retired pope, who is 93 and frail, listened. With Saturday’s new cardinals, Francis has named 73 of the 128 voting-age cardinals, compared to 39 for Pope Benedict XVI and 16 for St. John Paul II.

(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)ROME – The Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel was built to sequester cardinals during papal elections. The Vatican is arranging for them, and any of the cardinals who might not make it, to participate in the ceremony remotely from their homes. He too lives at Santa Marta, where there has been at least one positive case reported in recent months. Among the new voting age cardinals is the first African-American, Cardinal-designate Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, D.C. He too is concluding his quarantine in the Santa Marta hotel, where he said his meals are left on a tray outside his door.

WARREN, Mich. – Police are going door-to-door in a Warren neighborhood looking for new clues into a series of racially motivated attacks on an African-American family. Warren police stepped up their search for a man who terrorized a family with violent actions and messages of hate. Shon Smith knew someone threw a rock through the window of the Hall family home on Sept. 9. She became emotional when she learned the same man fired shots a the home Sept. 7 and Sept. 10. “It brought tears to my eyes.”The police, the FBI and the two veterans targeted in the attacks believe they were targeted for a Black Lives Matter sign they placed in their window.

A statue of Eugene Bullard, the first African-American fighter pilot, was unveiled at the Museum of Aviation near Robins Air Force Base in Georgia. Eugene Bullard, who became known as the Black Swallow of Death, was the first African-American pilot to fly in combat. He now has a statue in his honor, unveiled Wednesday in Warner Robins, Georgia, at the Museum of Aviation next to Robins Air Force Base, and about 100 miles south of Atlanta. When World War I broke out, Bullard enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, serving first in the infantry. The correct spelling is Harriett Bullard White.

(CNN) - A 12-year-old African-American girl who claimed three white classmates pinned her down and cut her dreadlocks has admitted the claims were fabricated, her school said. "We can now confirm that the student who accused three of her classmates of assault has acknowledged that the allegations were false," Stephen Danish, head of Immanuel Christian School, said in a statement Monday. Last week, the girl, Amari Allen, told CNN that three white boys at the school in Springfield, Virginia, pinned her to a playground slide. She claimed the boys held her hands behind her back, covered her mouth and clipped her hair, calling it "ugly" and "nappy." "To the administrators and families of Immanuel Christian School, we are sorry for the damage this incident has done to trust within the school family and the undue scorn it has brought to the school.

Michigan State University's attorneys are changing their conciliatory tone in light of the Larry Nassar scandal. Be informedDog attackTwo pit bulls attacked and killed a small dog in Detroit, then turned and attacked that dog's owner. READ MOREDetroit Youth ChoirThe Detroit Youth Choir is competing on NBC's "America's Got Talent" this season -- and they need your vote. You may remember their emotional first appearance on AGT in June, when they brought the house down with a showstopping performance. Tweets by Local4NewsCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

Angela Radulescu via Wikimedia Commons(CNN) - Toni Morrison, author of seminal works of literature on the black experience such as "Beloved," "Song of Solomon" and "Sula" and the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize, has died, her publisher Knopf confirmed to CNN. She was 88. Developing storyThe-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.

Google MapsA beloved activist and founder of an African-American museum in Baton Rouge was found dead in the trunk of a car, CNN affiliate WBRZ reported. The body of Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was located Friday but it wasn't immediately clear what led officers to the car. Roberts-Joseph was a renowned advocate in the Baton Rouge area. She also founded Community Against Drugs and Violence, a non-profit organization focused in creating a safer environment for children in North Baton Rouge. The NAACP Baton Rouge Branch remembered Roberts-Joseph in a Facebook post.

The Spike Lee film "Do the Right Thing," critics and columnists said, would provoke violence and disrupt race relations. "Spike Lee had done an almost impossible thing. The passion of "Do the Right Thing" is obvious: "Opinion will always be divided on ... 'Do the Right Thing,' " wrote The New Yorker's Anthony Lane. But perhaps the real reason people talk about "Do the Right Thing" three decades on is because it's still relevant. If you have yet to see "Do The Right Thing," try checking your local theater listings; the film is being re-released in 4K this weekend in select theaters.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Nicole Persley grew up in the southern United States and always thought she was a white American. She also discovered her paternal grandfather, Dr. Alonzo Persley, was black and a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School in 1915. She also discovered he was a Michigan football fan after he wrote he was interested in receiving Michigan football announcements and ticket information. With the help of University of Michigan Archivist Brian Williams, she was able to unveil the answer to that generation-old question. Williams discovered Persley attended undergraduate school at Lincoln University, a historically black university.

Devin Scillian hosts Flashpoint on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016. The topics cover various elements of the political campaign including Trump and African-American voters, Hillary Clinton and the notorious Email scandal, and more. This week's guests include:Lena Epstein Michigan Co-Chair, Trump CampaignNolan Finley Editorial Page Director., The Detroit NewsRon Fournier Associate Publisher- Crains DetroitStephen Henderson Editorial Page Director, Detroit Free PressDevin also sat down with Hank Winchester, Local 4's investigative reporter to discuss some Detroit public schools who are in need, and how can the community help.

Davis is suing FCA, and court records detail the behavior from her coworkers that made her life miserable. She says after she complained to management about her coworkers using a monkey call device, things only got worse. She says the monkeys showed up in 2013. Primates hung from the ceiling, huge blow up monkeys showed up and stuffed animals were spread all over the various cubicles. FCA makes it clear in in its company policies that it does not tolerate discrimination or harassment in any form.