Black History Month no doubt prompted many a discussion and project on Dr. Martin Luther King, but there are hometown civil ...

The former executive director of the Charleston YWCA and founder of the city’s annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration has died at 97.

Charles H. King Jr., a renowned Civil Rights leader, died 35 years ago in Atlanta, Georgia. “Fire In My Bones,” his 1983 ...

The body of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson arrived at his civil rights organization’s headquarters in Chicago on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026, to start a cross-country memorial service. Jackson will ...

Crowds of mourners lined up in Chicago as cross-country memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. began Thursday in ...

Crowds of mourners, including many dignitaries, lined up in Chicago as cross-country memorial services for the Rev. Jesse ...

Memorial services for Rev. Jesse Jackson began on Thursday in Chicago, where the late civil rights icon, Baptist minister and politician lay in repose at the headquarters of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition ...

With the exception of a brief rift in 2008, the two publicly maintained mutual respect. A family representative told Snopes ...

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

He will lie in repose this week at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago before being honored in South Carolina.

CHICAGO — The life and legacy of Reverend Jesse Jackson is being honored at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s (RPC) weekly ...