By Will Dunham Washington, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin ...

By Bianca Flowers, Kat Stafford and Disha Raychaudhuri Feb 18 (Reuters) - Among an outpouring of tributes following the death of U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, rights advocates vowed to ...

He died peacefully on Tuesday morning surrounded by his family, they say in a statement.

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and ...

Set in 1960s Florida, this powerful documentary uncovers a hidden chapter of the Civil Rights Movement. A courageous group of Black high school students organized peaceful sit-ins at a downtown lunch ...

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

The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being ...

The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks 182 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public-sector corruption. How does your country ...

Under the Taliban's new penal code, women have less legal protection than animals. What's happening in Afghanistan has a name ...

London Heathrow Airport (LHR) is not just an airport but also the busiest air traffic hub in Europe. It is a place where ...

The new Liberal leader unveiled his shadow cabinet in Sydney yesterday with very few surprises, and American civil rights icon Jesse Jackson has died aged 84.

Vice President JD Vance hailed Armenia as a “bedrock of Christian civilization and culture” and later deleted a post referring to the Armenian genocide during a historic visit to the war-torn country ...