Al Letson revisits a story about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that he produced 16 years ago for Black History Month.

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King's assassination, died Tuesday at ...

President Trump also remembers Jackson as a "force of nature" with "lots of personality, grit and street smarts".

A two-time presidential candidate and protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson was a trailblazer who led generations for decades.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years ...

By Bianca Flowers, Kat Stafford and Disha Raychaudhuri Feb 18 (Reuters) - Among an outpouring of tributes following the death of U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, rights advocates vowed to ...

A giant of the American civil rights struggle and a political pioneer, the Reverend Jesse Jackson now belongs to history. We ...

Dr. Prezell Robinson will be too frail to attend to the Black History Month celebration at Tarboro Road Community Center Saturday ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday joined the world and the people of the United States (U.S.) to mourn the passing of civil rights icon and Baptist preacher, Rev. Jesse Jackson. Jackson died ...

Arab American advocates eulogise Jackson as a civil rights giant who embraced their communities and defended Palestine.

A Buffalo restaurant has removed a social media post featuring Martin Luther King Jr. after it caused backlash on social media. The Draft Room posted to its Instagram page a black-and-white photo of ...