Despite not working in television, the civil rights leader helped make sure the second season of The Original Series was at ...

Memorial services honoring the life of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will be expanded beyond Chicago with events in Washington, D.C., and South Carolina.

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 ...

Civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. Jackson worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was present at his assassination in 1968.

Civil rights leader and American icon Rev. Jesse Jackson died early Tuesday morning at the age of 84. In 1968, Jackson witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., while standing with him ...

Christopher Wilson - Chair, Division of Home and Community Life, National Museum of American History The Reverend Jesse Jackson attends an event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the March on ...

A woman cries next to a a makeshift memorial in Minneapolis on Jan. 24, at the site where Alex Pretti was fatally by federal immigration agents. Credit: OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters ...

Historians at Morehouse College are using the week of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to draw attention to how specific places across Atlanta helped shape his thinking and the civil rights ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned his focus to Chicago 60 years ago this month. The Nobel Peace Prize winner came to the city at the request of Al Raby ...

In 1965, three months after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared from the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, that the aim of the civil rights movement was no more and no less than ...

The White House issued a proclamation recognizing the annual Martin Luther King Jr. holiday late Monday evening, following criticism from activists across the country. “Inspired by the tenets ...