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

It's the night of April third, 1968 and King's assassination is just hours away. The scene is the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. The play is "The Mountaintop," written by Katori Hall and Dee ...

Morehouse College students should wrestle with the legacy of Latter-day Saints founder Joseph Smith's portrait at King Hall, ...

America has this vast potential to be better,’ Jackson said in an interview for ‘The Choice 2008,’ as he reflected on the civil rights movement and the road to Barack Obama’s candidacy.

Charles H. King Jr., a renowned Civil Rights leader, died 35 years ago in Atlanta, Georgia. Founder and president of the Atlanta-based Urban Crisis Center, King was a contemporary of Martin Luther ...

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 ...

It’s clear that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence movement benefited from Clarence B. Jones’ North Philly swag. Jones’ gravelly voice narrates The Baddest Speechwriter of All, Steph ...

Janie Scott Griffin and LaTonya Lattimore sat in a red pew in the third row of a venerable old church in Durkeeville on Wednesday afternoon and listened as the stories of Jacksonville’s civil rights ...

To study the anatomy of Jesse Jackson’s iconism is to look into a mirror of the American project: a blend of transcendence and human fallibility.

The first Black Women’s Rights Convention is held in Akron, Ohio. The keynote speaker was anti-slavery activist Sojourner Truth. 1966—Constance Baker Motley be­comes the first African American woman ...

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.

Each morning that the U.S. Supreme Court is in session, clerks uphold one of its oldest traditions: Quills like those used as ...