Louisiana v. Callais “ could completely erase all, or most, of the gains of the civil rights movement’s crowning achievement,” Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center, told ...

Her role as a historic hero or villain depends on the movement in question, but looking at her as a mother and daughter adds depth to her legend ...

In 1957, Esau Jenkins and Septima Clark founded the Citizenship Schools to empower African Americans with education and political power, which eventually became the foundation for the Civil Rights ...

The Canton Freedom House, key to the US Civil Rights Movement and the last CORE site in Mississippi, joins the Mississippi Freedom Trail.

Albany’s Rutha Mae Harris, last original Freedom Singer, preserves civil rights history through music and advocacy.

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rev Jesse Jackson Sr (@revjjackson) Tributes continue to pour in after the death ...

The District of New Jersey is one of 94 federal judicial districts; in the District of Minnesota the chief judge said in an ...

Among an outpouring of tributes following the death of U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, rights advocates vowed to continue his fight for racial justice and an inclusive democracy amid ...

President Trump also remembers Jackson as a "force of nature" with "lots of personality, grit and street smarts".

Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, who marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and dedicated his life to activism, has died at 84.

Jesse Jackson was an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination.