Elementary school students at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School swapped out their pencils for chopsticks during their lunch time.

The 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Children's Book Drive is already underway, but there's still more than a month left to donate. The statewide event runs from February 23 through April 17.

It was the summer of 1966. I completed my first year at Bethany Theological Seminary in affluent Oak Brook, Illinois. My home for the summer was in a Black inner-city neighborhood on the West Side of ...

Kids in metro Atlanta have a chance to earn a free ticket to Monster Jam this spring by reading books through a program offered at several Georgia public libraries. The program encourages children to ...

Republican Brandon Herrera, 30, was endorsed by Trump on Wednesday in a race to replace Rep. Tony Gonzales, who was pressured ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson died on Feb. 17, 2026, at the age of 84. The Commercial Appeal is republishing some stories from Jackson's various visits to Memphis. This story originally published on April 4, ...

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 ...

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.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's ...

Flags were lowered to half-staff this morning in South Carolina, where civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in repose at the state capitol.

A crescendo of voices from the worlds of religion, politics, business, sports and entertainment converged at the House of ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and in the 1980s reshaped Democratic politics with two galvanizing ...