Hollywood star Julia Roberts revealed a heartwarming connection to civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. The Kings generously paid for Roberts' hospital bills at her birth ...

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Silas Hunt desegregated the University of Arkansas. Decades later, Fayetteville residents recall how his courage, and that of the Six Pioneers, reshaped their schools, neighborhood and civil rights.

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, ...

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.

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., ...

The Masonic lodge that served as the home base for Dr. King’s activism will soon be open to visitors. It had long been considered endangered. Credit...Alyssa Pointer for The New York Times Supported ...

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 ...

Civil rights leader and American icon Rev. Jesse Jackson died early Tuesday morning at the age of 84. In 1968, Jackson witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., while standing with him ...

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 ...

Jackson began his activism in 1960 with a "read-in" protest at a segregated library in his hometown. He worked alongside Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and led Operation Breadbasket to fight ...