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

House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the request from the family of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. for him to lie ...

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 ...

Community members gathered Tuesday evening at Cherry Grove Missionary Baptist Church for a peace and prayer rally in response to recent homicides and violence in the capital city.The event, held at ...

Jackson's call to move the 1993 Super Bowl over the lack of an MLK Day holiday showed that racism has a cost. It also inspired others to activism.

Jamaat-e-Islami secured 77 seats despite its long history of controversy over its stance during the Liberation War. Over the ...

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

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

Reverend Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, made several trips to Kansas City during his sixty-year career as ...

Memphis leaders reflect on the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson, a protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who worked for ...

Jackson would go on to become an American civil and human rights icon; an influential politician and presidential candidate; ...

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