"Something's got to take place in your life that will shake you up and turn you around." ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

A Selma-born Civil Rights icon was remembered Tuesday, Feb. 24, on the U.S. House Floor, as Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) paid ...

Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) mourns the loss of civil rights warrior Jo Ann Bland, who passed away on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. “The state of Alabama and the country lost a life-long ...

Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson dead at 84, Governors gather in D.C. for annual meeting and FBI seizes voter data from Fulton County.

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Louisiana v. Callais “ could completely erase all, or most, of the gains of the civil rights movement’s crowning achievement,” Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center, told ...

Civil rights icon Reverend Dr. Jesse Jackson has passed away, leaving a legacy of commitment to equality and justice.

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday ordered public buildings across the city and state to fly flags at half ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has died. He was 84. Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King and became a leader of the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King was assassinated in 1968.