The celebration was held on Sunday at St. Paul Village, where the Rev. Joel King, a cousin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Jesse Jackson was never just a politician. He was a presence.

Many people in Springfield, Ohio — home to some 12,000 Haitian immigrants — expect the city to be a target of ICE’s next ...

Faith Works columnist reflects on the complex legacy of Civil Rights icon Jesse Jackson, who never pastored a church but could give a powerful sermon.

Reggie Williams and NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE When Black leaders proceeded from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched beside the Rev.

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

With everything that’s going on in the world, thoughts keep returning to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Greenville native who ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s rise into America’s awareness was itself triggered by a death. He was with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of a Memphis hotel in 1968 when an assassin’s ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson battled alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and was regarded as one of the world's best-known Black activists.

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, ...

By CAL THOMAS Syndicated columnist President Trump called Rev. Jesse Jackson “a force of nature” and so he was. Jackson, who ...