In 1968, Jackson witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., while standing with him on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. CBS News Chicago spoke with him 50 years later about his memories ...

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, ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates the memory of Dr. King and his achievements as a civil rights leader. The holiday is observed annually on the third Monday of January and this ...

Civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. Jackson worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was present at his assassination in 1968.

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Back in February 2010, the radio show State of the Re:Union, created by Al Letson, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights champion, is dead. He was 84. The two men had worked together since 1965, when they met in Selma, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — There is just less than a week until a major road construction project begins along one of West Michigan's busiest freeways. A portion of the Martin Luther King Jr. Street bridge ...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national movement for economic and social justice. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Martin Luther King III, the son of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., on Tuesday urged the public to “keep hope alive,” echoing the words of the Rev. Jesse Jackson hours after his ...

The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, the longtime civil rights leader and former politician who rose to prominence as a protege of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. The 84-year-old’s family announced ...