Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a towering figure in the Civil Rights Movement, died ...

“Plants are closed. The tax base is limited. Children are neglected. Slums abound. This is a disaster born of greed,” he ...

The fires were still burning inside the massive 40-foot high Mount Trashmore whose toxic odors were polluting the lungs of neighborhood residents on Bridgeport’s African-American East End. We were ...