Odessa pastor, George T. Garnett, spoke about the impact and legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson following the civil rights leader's ...

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

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

Civil rights icon Reverend Dr. Jesse Jackson has passed away, leaving a legacy of commitment to equality and justice.

It is rare for private citizens to be honored at the Capitol, but there is precedent - most notably Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks, in 2005, and the Reverend Billy Graham, in 2018.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the wishes of a civil rights icon’s family for a final honor. Johnson shot down a request for Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol, ...

In the early morning of Tuesday, February 17th, Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., completed his assignment on earth, and surrounded by loving family members, took his last breath. He had a lifetime ...

A Republican candidate for Texas attorney general has threatened to revoke the citizenship of  Chinese American State Rep. Gene Wu (D-Houston) and vowed to use the office to “destroy the left.” What ...

Louisiana v. Callais “ could completely erase all, or most, of the gains of the civil rights movement’s crowning achievement,” Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center, told ...

The American civil rights icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson, died on Feb. 17 at the age of 84. His advisor, James Zogby, a pollster and co-founder of the Arab American Institute, traveled with Jackson ...

The Canton Freedom House, key to the US Civil Rights Movement and the last CORE site in Mississippi, joins the Mississippi Freedom Trail.