It was the summer of 1966. I completed my first year at Bethany Theological Seminary in affluent Oak Brook, Illinois.

The New York Amsterdam News’ staff stands today on the shoulders of giants. Numerous luminaries, Civil Rights icons, and cultural heavyweights remembered across the country this and every Black ...

Jesse Jackson's children remembered his civil rights legacy, and it was announced that memorial services are set for next ...

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

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered U.S. and Michigan flags across the state to be lowered to half-staff on Thursday, Feb. 26, and Friday, Feb. 27, to honor the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., who died earlier ...

His life traced the arc from the Civil Rights Movement to the challenges of a post–Civil Rights America still wrestling with inequality.

Before he became a civil-rights leader, Jesse Jackson briefly played football at Illinois. When football practice opened at the University of Illinois on the first day of September in 1959, coach Ray ...

In a series of profiles of members of the civil rights generation, we visit JoAnne Bland in Selma, Ala. Bland marched for voting rights on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965 when she was just 11.

Courtney Carson did not want to go to the Decatur church that November day in 1999 when the Rev. Jesse Jackson came to town for a rally. To do so, he remembered all these years later, was to admit a ...

A counterintelligence program sought to neutralise their efforts.

Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., whose career took him from his early collaboration with Martin Luther King to ...