A relative of Civil Rights hero Claudette Colvin reflects on her life and the impact the human rights activist had on the ...

After the U.S. Capitol denied requests lay the late Rev. Jesse Jackson in state, the South Carolina Capitol agreed to ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is being honored in South Carolina, where he was born and where his civil rights work began as a ...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

The Rainbow PUSH Coalition has announced that civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson's memorial services have been ...

On January 30, 1972, thousands marched in Derry against internment without trial — and within minutes, it became a killing ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's body will lie in state next Monday at the South Carolina Statehouse, Gov. Henry McMaster announced.

Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two white Minneapolis residents killed in January 2026 by federal agents while protesting the Trump administration’s immigration policy, have become household names.

What to know about Rev. Jesse Jackson, a central figure in the Civil Rights Movement and national politics for more than six decades.

The march will honor the legacy of labor leader Cesar Chavez and the ongoing fight for farm workers' rights, with Dolores Huerta among the grand marshals.

Gov. Andy Beshear is ordering that flags at state office buildings be lowered to half-staff on Saturday, March 7, honoring civil rights leader Jesse Jackson who died on Feb. 17 ...

Caroline LeCount's civil disobedience in Philadelphia led to the desegregation of public transportation in Pennsylvania.