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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in Jacksonville.

For the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, we're reminding you what the Selma marches were all about.

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 ...

Jesse Jackson's career in politics and social justice activism brought him to Memphis time and time again in the 58 years after MLK's assassination.

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A stay in of the oldest hotels in the U.S. offers guests plenty of nostalgia and the elegance of a bygone era, all while ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Chicago institution who left footprints globally in his ardent advocacy for civil rights, has died. He ...

The "CBS Sunday Morning" correspondent's latest book examines how, in its first half-century, the company founded by Steve ...