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The legacy of civil rights leader Rosa Parks was honored at The Ohio State University’s Fawcett Center last week.

“The Power of One: The Spirit of the Movement” was part of the 17th Annual Statewide Tribute to Rosa Parks at Ohio State. The university and the Central Ohio Transit Authority supported the Thursday night discussion, which was hosted by former news anchor Jerry Revish and featured Congresswoman Joyce Beatty and Congressional Black Caucus Executive Director Vincent Evans.

What's happening? The Congressional Black Caucus is making a last-ditch — and very long-shot — push for voting rights legislation in the final days of Democrats’ House majority.

The Black Caucus is meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss next steps after several of their members told Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team that they will refuse to advance a must-pass defense policy measure without securing a vote on their voting rights bill, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.

House Democrats have delayed action on a sweeping defense policy bill following an eleventh-hour push from Black lawmakers for an accompanying vote to protect voting rights.

The House entered Wednesday expecting to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in the evening. Negotiators had reached a deal on the $847 billion defense bill Tuesday night, and it was expected to sail through the lower chamber with bipartisan support when it hit the floor 24 hours later. 

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Ala. for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. A critical moment in the fight for civil rights, Parks went down in history books as a revolutionary. 

Now, 67 years after her arrest, members of the Congressional Black Caucus are paying tribute to the woman who helped spark the Civil Rights

As they have every two years since 2012, voters in Columbus’ 3rd congressional district have once again sent U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty to Capitol Hill.