The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is ready to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States of America.

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

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

UCLA maintains antisemitism has no place at its campus. But the DOJ said the University of California has failed in protecting its employees.

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.

Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in state at the South Carolina Statehouse on March 2, an honor requested by his family.

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

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

A Selma native, Joanne Bland was 11 when she became the youngest to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will be honored at the South Carolina Capitol in the state where he was born and where his crusade ...

From the civil rights era of the 1960s until today, white victims of government violence have received disproportionate attention.

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will lie in state at the South Carolina Statehouse on March 2, with flags lowered to half-staff to ...