House Speaker Mike Johnson denied the request, citing past precedent over how the deaths of other high-profile figures were ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson recently denied a request to have civil rights leader Jesse Jackson lie in honor in the US Capitol ...

People in the metro area are mourning the death of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson. His family says he died at the age of 84. Jackson touched so many lives here in the Atlanta area. He helped ...

I wrote a book about Jesse Jackson, and we became friends. The cynics didn’t get how he fused moral simplicity and political ...

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the wishes of a civil rights icon’s family for a final honor. Johnson shot ...

Famed civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson has died. Jackson, 84, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and later ...

His success in the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries ushered in a new era in Democratic Party politics.

The arsonist who burned Clayborn Temple last year may have destroyed the physical reminder of the church’s history but did not diminish the legacy of the civil rights work that took place there.

2015: Little League International took away the Jackie Robinson West team’s national championship, saying its officials knowingly fielded players who lived outside the team’s residential boundaries — ...

Muhibb Dyer, co-founder of Flood the Hood with Dreams, received a Community Connector Award for his work in combating youth violence in Milwaukee.

By the time Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr.’s voice fell silent this week, it had already left an indelible imprint on American history — and on St. Louis, where his words and presence intersected with ...