Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

As communities across the country on Monday host parades, panels and service projects for the 40th federal observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the political climate for some is more fraught ...

A shadowy political action committee opposing Virginia’s April 21 redistricting referendum is facing sharp criticism after ...

More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same strain of political violence at work in American society.“It’s painful,” ...

Civil rights icons, politicians and thought leaders across the United States shared tributes reflecting on the legacy of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, the pioneering civil rights leader, Baptist ...

The program connects contemporary challenges to time-tested lessons from Civil Rights icons like MLK and Andrew Young. When civil rights icon Andrew Young was growing up on a diverse square in New ...

Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of our history. By Matthew F. Delmont Matthew F. Delmont is a professor of ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leader who bridged the era of Martin Luther King Jr. with the modern world and whose two presidential runs in the 1980s set the stage for today’s progressive ...

Georgia’s ruling party proposed on January 28 a new package of legislation that would criminalize core civic activity and erect sweeping barriers to political participation. If adopted, the draft laws ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a prominent figure in the civil rights movement, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 84, according to his family. Known for his advocacy for racial justice and ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the most prominent U.S. civil rights leaders of the 20th century who ran credible campaigns for the White House two decades before America elected its first Black ...