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.

Jackson would go on to become an American civil and human rights icon; an influential politician and presidential candidate; ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president in the 1980s and led the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in Chicago for decades.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

Penn Center recalls Lowcountry visits of Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Movement leader and presidential candidate who died ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran ...

Mardi Gras, Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day combine for a weekend full of parades, parties, concerts and family activities.

In October 1975, the Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke about civil rights, Black history and the importance of voting during the annual NAACP state convention in downtown. He ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a lifelong civil rights advocate until his death Tuesday at the age of 84.

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson leaves behind a lasting impact on the D.C. area, which began during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, he saw Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's life was tied tightly to the city of Chicago and its people going back to when he first arrived in the city as a theological student in 1964.

Jesse Jackson’s children remember his civil rights legacy and describe him as a devoted father after his death at home ...