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.

The Masonic lodge that served as the home base for Dr. King’s activism will soon be open to visitors. It had long been considered endangered.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates the memory of Dr. King and his achievements as a civil rights leader. The holiday is observed annually on the third Monday of January and this ...

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

In February 1960, Clarence B. Jones received a phone call from a friend who informed him that a Georgia preacher, Martin Luther King, Jr., had been indicted for tax evasion. The friend, Hubert Delany, ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr ...

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 ...

CENTRAL FLORIDA — The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be celebrated with parades, festivals and service events all weekend throughout Central Florida.