Jackson, who died Tuesday, worked to diversify the electorate and brought Black women into Democratic politics who ascended ...

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As Amy Bertsch read about a historic Virginia trial accusing a Black man of double murder, it wasn’t the highly documented ...

A giant of the American civil rights struggle and a political pioneer, the Reverend Jesse Jackson now belongs to history. We ...

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Now 83, trailblazing Black attorney in Dallas, Joan Tarpley says she never intended to make history, but she did.

Federal judges have ordered the release of at least three of ten West African immigrants who were swarmed by federal agents in multiple immigration raids in October and November on New York City’s ...

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 ...

From the moment the Rev. Jesse Jackson stepped forward as torchbearer to what was then a largely Southern civil rights struggle — a movement with much unfinished business ...

The administration is approaching pardons in a “chaotic” and seemingly deliberately opaque manner, leading to a number of ...