Civic leader Lincoln Ragsdale Sr. would have turned 100 this year. His story remains unknown to many Phoenix residents.

Jesse Jackson Jr. criticized Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton for injecting politics into his father's memorial ...

They sent the Rev. Jesse Jackson home Saturday the only way it could have been done: with Gospel music, testimony that often brought people to their feet and story after story about a man who rose ...

There is little marking Jackson’s ties to Greenville, SC, and its larger civil rights history today, but leaders and elders in the rapidly gentrifying community are making plans to honor their most ...

Jackson died last month at age 84 after battling a rare neurological disorder that affected his mobility and ability to speak. Family members say he continued coming into the office until last year ...

Barrack Obama sparked a buzz as he gestured to a Democratic presidential hopeful at a star-studded funeral for the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

What shall it be to a state, that he opens his gates upon him with open arms, when him once he had closed the gates of her life? Thousands of people in Columbia assembled into a long, slow moving line ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dozens of politicians paid tribute to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday, as the civil rights icon lies in honor at the South Carolina State House in Columbia. Many of the federal ...

COLUMBIA, SC – Thousands stood in a line that wrapped around the South Carolina Statehouse on March 2, waiting to pay their respects to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson. Jackson, a Greenville native and ...