Ohio celebrates Rosa Parks Day (The Columbus Dispatch)
Fifty-two years ago tomorrow in Montgomery, Ala., Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, resulting in her arrest on a civil-disobedience charge and sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major event in the march toward full civil rights for the nation's African Americans. us.rd.yahoo.com
For Urban Tree Planters, Concrete Is the Easy Part
If you’re a forester perversely inclined to ply your trade in New York City, a new initiative makes now a pretty good time to make a go of it. nytimes.com