FILE - Rosa Parks, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus, touched off the Montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement, is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, Feb. 22, 1956.
FILE -Rosa Parks arrives at circuit court to be arraigned in the racial bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, Feb. 24, 1956.
FILE - Rosa Parks, left, who was fined $10 and court costs for violating Montgomery's segregation ordinance for city buses, makes bond for appeal to Circuit Court, Dec. 5, 1955.
FILE - Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the Congressional Medal of Freedom in Detroit, Michigan, Nov. 28, 1999.
FILE - Rosa Parks visits an exhibit illustrating her bus ride of December, 1955 at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, July 15, 1995.
FILE - A poster entitled "It All Started On A Bus," is pasted above the front seat of a New York City bus to honor Rosa Parks in New York, Dec. 1, 2005.
FILE - President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, Michigan, April 18, 2012.
FILE - The statue of African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parks is seen in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 2014.
Remembering Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of a city bus. She became an icon in the Civil Rights movement in America.
Today is the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks standing up to racism. Many people used social media to remember the role she played in American history:
On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks’ act of rebellion on a Montgomery bus sparked a national movement for equal rights. pic.twitter.com/qJZ3rtfrqf
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) December 1, 2015
Many on Twitter also remarked on Rosa Park’s impact in today’s Black Lives Matter movement.
Besides 60 years, what separates Rosa Parks from #BlackLivesMatter? https://t.co/NmRJuMxxjA
— New America (@NewAmerica) December 1, 2015
Racism is still with us, but we shall overcome.
— WEAR JUSTICE (@wearjustice) December 1, 2015
– Rosa Parks#BlackLivesMatter #LaquanMcDonald pic.twitter.com/VPDRMzvQo5
#GivingTuesday
December 1 was also #GivingTuesday. The day of giving follows America’s two biggest shopping days of the year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
#GivingTuesday encourages people to volunteer or donate to charities and nonprofit organizations. The 24-hour online movement started in 2012. It uses social media to inspire people to give.
The hashtag #unselfie goes along with #GivingTuesday. Twitter users post messages or photos to tell what causes or organizations they supported on #GivingTuesday. #Unselfie is a play on the word “selfie” and is meant to represent generosity.
I gave to the school of Philosophy #unselfie #GivingTuesdayCUA @CatholicUniv pic.twitter.com/N7oUhG35nH
— Colin Lomnitzer (@colin_lomn) December 1, 2015
World AIDS Day
Around the world on December 1, people marked World AIDS Day. On social media, images of red ribbons took over news feeds. Red ribbons are a symbol of support for people living with HIV. Thirty-seven million people around the world are living with the disease.
White House displays large red ribbon to mark #WorldAIDSDay pic.twitter.com/VAYuqpNLwE
— ABC News (@ABC) December 1, 2015
The World AIDS Day organization created the hashtag #RethinkHIV. It also created social media posts for people to share, in hopes of helping people better understand HIV.
Today is #WorldAidsDay & for 2015 it's time to #RethinkHIV! Learn how we are improving lives https://t.co/hnyS1yxsfQ pic.twitter.com/v1Q898JXxz
— JaneGoodallInstitute (@JaneGoodallInst) December 1, 2015
PSY
Three years after his viral music video Gangnam Style, South Korean pop star Psy is back in the spotlight.
He released a new video, Daddy, on Monday. His new album came out on Tuesday. It is called “Psy 7th album.”
Like Gangnam Style the lyrics of Psy’s new songs are in English and Korean. Fans call his Daddy video just as crazy as his 2012 viral hit.
Psy’s new ‘Daddy’ video is as crazy as ‘Gangnam Style’ https://t.co/EgzBWgPq0Z pic.twitter.com/YhWZgmCHPe
— WIRED (@WIRED) December 1, 2015
Daddy received 6 million views on YouTube in 24 hours. Although those are impressive numbers, Psy told AFP he thinks there’s “no chance” that Daddy will reach the success of Gangnam Style.
Gangnam Style was the first YouTube video to reach 1 billion views. Today, it is still the most-watched YouTube video ever.
And that's What's Trending Today.
I'm Ashley Thompson.
Words on This Story
nonprofit - adj. not done for the purpose of making money
cause - n. something (such as an organization, belief, idea, or goal) that a group or people support or fight for
generosity - n. the quality of being kind, understanding, and not selfish
viral - adj. relating to or involving an image, video, piece of information, etc., that is circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another.
