First known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she later became an avid proselytizer for his vision of peace ...

As Florida censors a college textbook on sociology, cutting mentions of ‘racism’ down from 115 to 6, the whitewashing of ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate whose booming oratory and populist message propelled the Civil Rights Movement in the decades after the assassination ...

Port Arthur civil rights advocate Hargie Faye Savoy has died. Services this week invite the community to honor her legacy.

Jesse Jackson's death at 84 brings reflections on his enduring legacy, from inspiring youth with hope to his pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement.

He will lie in repose this week at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago before being honored in South Carolina.

Born from his civil rights work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the product of two separate organizations fighting for social justice, economic opportunity and equal rights, Rev. Jesse Jackson, ...

Williams’ chronicle would be more enriching by addressing presumed truths that are far from self-evident, for example, what differentiates the second civil rights movement from the first?

In 1984, Jackson used "Saturday Night Live" to take a "last shot at America's mind" and faulty policies with jokes ...

Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic ...

Why Jackson's blueprint remains prophetic for a country hoping to aspire beyond exclusionary politics.

President Ramaphosa honours Rev. Jesse Jackson President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid a deeply emotional tribute to civil rights leader, Reverend Dr. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr, describing him as a man whose ...