His life traced the arc from the Civil Rights Movement to the challenges of a post–Civil Rights America still wrestling with ...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

On the comedy program, Jackson paid tribute to famed author Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel, who had recently passed away. He did a skit reading "Green Eggs and Ham," leaving audiences roaring ...

From Birmingham jail to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Alexander Brown recounts his role in the Civil Rights Movement.

I wrote a book about Jesse Jackson, and we became friends. The cynics didn’t get how he fused moral simplicity and political ...

What a chance encounter taught me about Jesse Jackson’s true stature - COMMENT: As tributes pour in for the American civil rights leader, Joe Murphy recalls a misjudged interview – and how a frail str ...

Eden Prairie students honored at City Council for art and essays inspired by Black civil rights leaders during Words in Action contest.

Rev. Jesse Jackson was at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated there.

Al Letson revisits a story about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that he produced 16 years ago for Black History Month.

President Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address focused on the economy, tax cuts, border security, DHS funding, Iran ...

Black History Month should prompt more than commemoration. It should force us to ask why the figures we now hold up as icons ...