Mourners can pay their respects to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who died last week, at the Statehouse on ...

Memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. to honor his long civil rights legacy begin in Chicago. Events will also ...

Memorial events honoring the life and legacy of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson began in Chicago, drawing elected officials ...

For decades, the Leak family and the Jacksons were “intertwined.” Now, the family behind the long-time funeral business is tasked with planning and executing Jackson’s services and handling his ...

At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while ...

Ernest Withers took some of the most iconic photographs of the American civil rights movement. He was in the room, on the ...

During the last minutes of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life on April 4, 1968, he was in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, room 306. That evening, Dr. King and his associates were planning to go ...

In an exclusive clip from Soapy, Jonelle Allen is looking back at the fateful night when Martin Luther King, Jr. was ...

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., a consequential and transformative leader who reshaped the civil rights movement, altered Democratic Party politics, and changed the course of U.S. political history, died T ...

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 ...

Memorial services honoring the life of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will be expanded beyond Chicago with events in Washington, ...