The Church of the Crossroads commemorates Rosa Parks and marks the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott with a free screening at 6:30 tonight of "The Rosa Parks Story," starring Angela Bassett and Cicely Tyson.

This year's Human Rights Day is a chance to reflect on the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and the 50th anniversary of the boycott, when civil rights activists walked for 381 days in protest of segregation. 741-4612, www.mlk-hawaii.org.

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WORLD AIDS DAY EVENTS AROUND TOWN

The World Health Organization declared Dec. 1 World AIDS Day in 1988. Seventeen years later, events are happening around the world — including in Honolulu.

The John A. Burns School of Medicine shows the documentary "A Closer Walk" at 4 p.m., followed by a pizza dinner provided by the American Medical Student Association and an AIDS panel discussion.

For a list of other events, such as a 5:30 p.m. ceremony at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, visit www.worldaidsdayhawaii.org.

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FINAL WORD

"If somebody had told me, 'You're going to wind up married to a girl 35 years younger than you and a Korean, not in show business,' I would have said, 'You're crazy.' "

Woody Allen | quoted in Vanity Fair magazine