Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Girard College in Philadelphia in 1965, and the McAllister family are featured in a photo of that day ...

The president is set to deliver the State of the Union address later this month. Find out when and where to watch his speech to Congress.

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

Though he didn’t win the Democratic nomination for president in either year, Jesse Jackson’s moving speeches at the conventions called on the party to care more about the marginalized.

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and ...

Look back at the late Rev. Jesse Jackson's most memorable quotes, from Democratic National Convention speeches and more.

Jackson spoke on July 18, 1988 — the second night of the only Democratic National Convention ever held in Atlanta — at the Omni Coliseum.