It’s clear that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence movement benefited from Clarence B. Jones’ North Philly swag. Jones’ gravelly voice narrates The Baddest Speechwriter of All, Steph ...

In her four years at Wellesley, Rodham had witnessed urban riots, the escalation of the war in Vietnam and the murders of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. She was in no mood to ...

Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of ...

Jesse Jackson, a key figure during the US civil rights movement of the 1960s, was known for being the first African-American to make the jump from activism to major-party presidential politics. A ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural address is one of the most anticipated speeches in decades, with many expecting his words to be chiseled into marble some day. Obama aides said that the speech ...

Civic leader Lincoln Ragsdale Sr. would have turned 100 this year. His story remains unknown to many Phoenix residents.

Jackson died last month at age 84 after battling a rare neurological disorder that affected his mobility and ability to speak ...

Bishop Robert Barron exposes the "Karl Marx playbook" after the AOC called Western culture "thin" in response to Marco Rubio's Munich speech.

Food service, office and other employees will receive a 10% raise over three years. Also, various district events are coming up.

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 ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Steven Soderbergh, Chloé Zhao and Chadwick Boseman’s widow — among dozens of others — speak out in the definitive oral history of a ceremony that was both a fiasco and a miracle: "I ...