Social media plays a major role in how today’s civil rights warriors are doing things differently. They have wins to show for ...

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

As the nation reflects on the life and legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, educators and students in Atlanta say his passing is ...

"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 ...

Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, who fought alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and ran for president, has died at 84. Explore ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who witnessed Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memphis and maintained decades‑long ties to the city’s activism, has died. Here's what to know.

Jackson would go on to become an American civil and human rights icon; an influential politician and presidential candidate; ...

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