The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader who carried the movement’s demands for racial justice, economic ...

That is why the Department of Justice should issue a detailed public investigative report on the two recent shootings that ...

According to a tow truck driver who said she was called to the scene, one tractor-trailer was hauling steel, and another was ...

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A timeline of Jesse Jackson's life.

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

The second fatal incident came on July 7, 2025, when a Putney man, Scott Garvey, 55, was shot by a state trooper after neighbors called the police and reported “mental health concerns” and, later, ...

Kansas City, Missouri, became the first major city in the U.S. to repeal its anti-jaywalking ordinance, after research found ...

Jackson attended the Triad HBCU from 1960-1964, transferring from the University of Illinois, shortly after the A&T Four's ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at 84, had a profound impact on Florida's civil rights movement and political ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Chicago-based civil rights icon, political trailblazer, and lifelong advocate for equality who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and inspired generations with his ...