When Martin Luther King Jr. served as the pastor of an Alabama church during the latter half of the 1950s, he would get food ...

As a student in North Carolina A&T, Jackson gradually became involved with the civil rights movement. In 1960, he was ...

The MLK Chorus was founded by Alvin Parris, a local minister, music director, and organist, in 1989. It was first called the ...

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

Jackson’s legacy traces back to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., where he was part of King’s inner circle. He was at the Memphis hotel with Dr. King when he was assassinated. Jackson later ran for ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate who died Feb. 17, advocated for years for ...

Jackson has been a leading voice for civil rights and worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Quad Cities leaders remember ...

A longtime associate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a two-time presidential candidate, Jackson forged enduring ...

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the Chicago-based Baptist minister, political figure and two-time presidential candidate, has died.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's life was tied tightly to the city of Chicago and its people going back to when he first arrived in ...

An important landmark part of the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Born from his civil rights work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the product of two separate organizations fighting for social justice, economic opportunity and equal rights, Rev. Jesse Jackson, ...