CNN’s Victor Blackwell speaks to civil rights activists Rev. Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young during their first joint visit to the Memphis motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down in 1968.
He died peacefully on Tuesday morning surrounded by his family, they say in a statement.
"His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions," his family said in a statement.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday joined the world and the people of the United States (U.S.) to mourn the passing of ...
Jackson frequented North Carolina and the Charlotte region throughout his life for conferences, church events and get-out-the ...
Jesse Louis Jackson was, as Harold Washington laughingly said about himself in giving our media gaggle a Latin lesson, generis: Unique.
As City Council members question the Philadelphia School District’s plan to close 20 schools, the district is laying out how much it would spend on modernizing schools in each council district.
Tarique left Bangladesh in 2008 after being released from detention under a military-backed caretaker administration, saying ...
Rev. Jesse Jackson, a pivotal civil rights leader who fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and ran for president, has ...
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.
Jackson would go on to become an American civil and human rights icon; an influential politician and presidential candidate; ...
The US civil rights activist's influence spread from the churches of the Deep South to the White House.