In my long-ago youth, I had three exciting, galvanizing political heroes, Senator Bobby Kennedy, Rev. Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson. Rev. Jackson was the only one to live past ...

Reggie Williams and NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE When Black leaders proceeded from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched beside the Rev.

As a student in North Carolina A&T, Jackson gradually became involved with the civil rights movement. In 1960, he was ...

Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign and his Greenville roots profoundly shaped American politics. His legacy, however, faces new challenges.

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 ...

In partnership with Branksome Hall and Upper Canada College, WAC is the longest-running student-led conference in North America. New this year: Livestream broadcast internationally. Colonel Chris ...

Sometime in the spring of 1988 I got a call. I was then Executive Producer of Appalshop Films, part of a multi-media Appalachian cultural center here in Whitesburg, Kentucky. On the other end of the ...

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

Statue of Rev. C.K. Steele’s resolute gaze over the C.K. Steele bus plaza. (Khalil-Lullah Ballentine/FAMUAN) The solemn ...

With midterm elections on the horizon, a number of pain points threaten to overshadow the list of accomplishments Trump is ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — During Black History Month, the future of Portland’s oldest civil rights organization is hanging in ...

The speech will set the tone for the 2026 midterms and comes as the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary.