He founded the Rainbow PUSH coalition and became the second African-American to seek the presidential nomination of a major party in 1984.

Music history has a funny way of remembering the loud voices while quietly shelving the revolutionary ones. We celebrate ...

Eulogies are pouring in after the death of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, who led the U.S. Civil Rights Movement for decades. The protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential ...

Cameroon, where 93-year-old President Paul Biya has ruled since 1982, is the latest of at least seven African nations to ...

Juliette Bryant says not long after meeting Jeffrey Epstein, he assaulted her, and she realized, "this is not a modeling ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years despite challenges over his health, the coronavirus pandemic, racial ...

Hong Kong — Cantonese for “fragrant harbour” — has often taken the “ kong ” part lightly. Long blighted by highways, piers, sewage plants, car parks, abattoirs and cement works, the Asian financial ...

The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic ...

Unlike the record 43-day shutdown last fall, the closures are narrowly confined, affecting only agencies under the DHS ...

The Louisiana State Museum has opened a new exhibition at its Presbytère titled “Origins of New Orleans Black Carnival ...

When Betty Harden agreed to a beach trip with friends nearly 70 years ago, she didn’t realize it would end with cameras, ...