Civil Rights Leaders Reverend Jesse Jackson and Reverend Samuel Billy Kyles were honored in Celebration of Life event on ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO (WGN) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a two-time presidential candidate who ...

Minnesota civil rights leaders gathered with thousands on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. to commemorate 61 years since the U.S. civil rights movement turning point, known at Bloody Sunday.

(RNS) — Their bridge building and organizing, they say, looks back to the Civil Rights Movement and ahead to November and ...

Gene C. Blue, a Phoenix civil rights leader and nonprofit CEO who helped thousands find jobs, has died. He was 86.

He advocated for the poor and underrepresented on a wide range of issues. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

Rep. Jonathan Jackson, D-Ill., (left) and his brother Jesse Jackson Jr. join their siblings in speaking about their father outside their parents' home in Chicago on Feb. 18, the day after Jesse ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King’s assassination, ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, died at 84. Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King’s assassination, ...