Memorial events honoring the life and legacy of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson begin this week in Chicago, likely drawing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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How federal government disrupted work of Black Power movement
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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 ...
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 ...
It was the summer of 1966. I completed my first year at Bethany Theological Seminary in affluent Oak Brook, Illinois.
His life traced the arc from the Civil Rights Movement to the challenges of a post–Civil Rights America still wrestling with inequality.
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