Three former presidents are among those who plan to attend the memorial service for civil rights activist Jesse Jackson March ...

The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr pr ...

The Jackson City Council is expected to discuss them on Tuesday.

Flags were lowered to half-staff this morning in South Carolina, where civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in repose at the state capitol.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a two-time presidential candidate and civil rights icon who died Feb. 17, is being honored Monday in his home state. A tribute began with a mile-long procession of ...

Several thousand citizens made their way to Columbia Monday as South Carolina held memorial services in the state's capital ...

After reading to students in a Read Across America event, Charleston Mayor Cogswell hung out with 100 curious third graders ...

New Orleans must be the world capital of parades. After Mardi Gras, the city barely has a chance to catch its breath before ...

The body of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Greenville native, lied in state inside the South Carolina Capitol as people ...

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

Two trails, one in downtown Baton Rouge and one in BREC’s Mary J. Lands Park, tell stories of resilience, community, activism ...