Bernard LaFayette Jr., who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in ...

A witness to MLK's assassination, he helped lead the Civil Rights Movement and twice ran for president Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to PEOPLE for over 20 ...

On October 8, 1941, Jesse Jackson was born into a world where he could not walk into the same buildings as his White neighbors or check out a book at the local library. He could not go to school with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kara Walker's "Unmanned Drone," which was created from a statue of prominent Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson that Walker sliced ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Museum of Contemporary Art has acquired Kara Walker’s sculpture “Unmanned Drone,” a cornerstone of the ...

A Pride flag removed from the Stonewall National Monument. Exhibition panels about slavery taken down at a national park site in Philadelphia. The changes, ordered under a directive from President ...

ROME, GA − President Trump has long has his eyes on Georgia. Whether through the FBI raids of an election facility in Fulton County, south of Atlanta, or public clashes with former congresswoman ...

President Donald Trump praised civil rights activist Jesse Jackson as a "real hero" during a White House Black History Month event Wednesday, just a day after Jackson’s death. "I wanted to begin by ...

President Donald Trump remembered the late civil rights leader Jesse Jackson on Wednesday as "a real piece of work" but "a good man" and a hero. Watch the full event in the video player above. "I knew ...

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed while standing on a balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968, Jesse Jackson was in the courtyard below. The young, ...

Mike Bianco and the Ole Miss Rebels will return to action on Wednesday for a non-conference matchup against Jackson State at Swayze Field. After capturing a walk-off win over the Arkansas State Red ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson died peacefully this morning alongside his family following a struggle with a rare brain disease, his Rainbow PUSH Coalition announced. Jackson ...