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 ...

Katori Hall’s drama, set on the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, is nicely played in an old-fashioned style at Playhouse on Park.

A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom ...

Obama responded to a call to run for a third term while speaking at the funeral of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.

Three former U.S. presidents, Grammy-winning artists, clergy and elected officials are expected to attend a Chicago ...

Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop gives audiences insight into King’s last night on earth inside his motel room after giving his ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon, two-time Democratic presidential candidate and Greenville native, has died at the ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...