Rev. Jesse Jackson was at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated there.

His life traced the arc from the Civil Rights Movement to the challenges of a post–Civil Rights America still wrestling with ...

It has been one of the greatest honors of my life to spend as much time as possible with the Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr.

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

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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.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson battled alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and was regarded as one of the world's best-known Black activists.

Civil rights leader crisscrossed Akron-Canton area over the past 60 years. Here are some highlights from those visits.

It is often said that history is best viewed through a rearview mirror, where the twists and turns of a single life finally sharpen into a clear destination. That’s where we’ve been since Jan. 29, ...

And now I do too. I clearly hear his voice, see that sparkle in his eyes, “Hey, man. How you doin’?” I would tell him, and he would say, “Wow, let’s talk.” And we did so many, many times. Woodie was ...

Influential theater producer and director Woodie King Jr. died at age 88 in New York City. King founded the New Federal Theatre in 1970, which became a launchpad for Black artists and landmark plays.