The Rev. Jesse Jackson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president in the 1980s and led the Rainbow/PUSH ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with CNN's Abby Phillip about the life and legacy of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died at 84.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years ...

Select trophies will be presented live during a two-hour TV special on Feb. 28.

Sports commentators and writers still refer to Jackie Robinson as the one who broke the color barrier in baseball. But 28 ...

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One of the US’s most prominent civil rights leaders who was a protege of Martin Luther King and a presidential hopeful ...

In statements and all over social media Tuesday morning, leaders and officials from across the Chicago area, Illinois, the U.S. and the world have been offering condolences, penning tributes and ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the Chicago-based Baptist minister, political figure and two-time presidential candidate whose ...

As progressive Americans have become more secular, the academy has become their primary moral training ground. The results ...

Unbeknownst to many, the actor so beloved as Black Panther was also a playwright. Six years after his death, his 2005 play about the killing of his friend at the hands of a policeman is making its UK ...