First known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she later became an avid proselytizer for his vision of peace ...

Bernard LaFayette, a key strategist in the Civil Rights Movement who laid the groundwork for the historic Selma voting rights campaign that helped lead to the passage of the ...

Ahead of a potential presidential run, California Gov. Gavin Newsom compared himself to the likes of Martin Luther King Jr.

Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.

The civil rights organizer helped lead the student sit-ins that desegregated Nashville’s lunch counters and later became a strategist in the Southern voting rights movement.

They sent the Rev. Jesse Jackson home Saturday the only way it could have been done: with Gospel music, testimony that often ...

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd looks at how the different ideas and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Jesse Jackson impacted the direction of the Civil Rights Movement. Peniel Joseph, ...

The Rev Jesse Jackson arrived at the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka. 2004 Wichita Eagle file photo The Rev. Jesse Jackson died this morning. He was 84. The ...

Childhood emotional neglect: A subtle, often invisible childhood experience that happens when your parents fail to notice or respond to your feelings enough. Why does it matter if you grew up with ...

Decades before Gayle King traveled to space, the longtime journalist spent her childhood traveling abroad and expanding her worldview. King has mentioned in interviews that as a child, she didn’t ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. died Tuesday at 84. Jackson was known as an orator, diplomat, and activist who worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and ran for president twice during the 1980s.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate whose booming oratory and populist message propelled the Civil Rights Movement in the decades after the assassination ...