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 ...

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.

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 ...

Christopher Wilson - Chair, Division of Home and Community Life, National Museum of American History The Reverend Jesse Jackson attends an event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the March on ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's ...

It's always nice to get an adaptation that's on par with the book, as is the case with Stephen King movies like The Long Walk ...