From MLK’s office to Obama’s victory, one documentarian shares intimate memories of Jesse Jackson’s fearless push for justice.

Smith founded Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. While Smith himself was not a slaveholder, some early church ...

Lynn Norment, a former reporter and editor for Ebony Magazine, writes a column for The Commercial Appeal. She covered Jesse ...

Trace the paths of civil rights heroes while savoring vegan Southern cuisine, bridging past struggles and present-day ...

Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., whose impassioned plea to “Keep hope alive!” buoyed Black America through transformative political, social and economic campaigns over a seven-decade career in public ...

"Joe's College Road Trip," partly filmed in Memphis, is the most-watched movie on Netflix since its debut on the streaming ...

His life traced the arc from the Civil Rights Movement to the challenges of a post–Civil Rights America still wrestling with ...

I wrote a book about Jesse Jackson, and we became friends. The cynics didn’t get how he fused moral simplicity and political ...

The cradle of the Civil Rights Movement is mourning the loss of Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84.

Clayton shattered the glass ceiling when she became the first African American to have her own talk show in the South.

The Masonic lodge that served as the home base for Dr. King’s activism will soon be open to visitors. It had long been considered endangered.

TAMPA, Fla. — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates the memory of Dr. King and his achievements as a civil rights leader. The holiday is observed annually on the third Monday of January and this ...