The exhibit is part of State Department of Archives and History’s celebrations for America250 in honor of 250th anniversary ...

On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile parked in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home, carrying t-shirts that read, “Jim Crow Must Go.” He had returned from ...

I covered the Rev. Jesse Jackson from the mid 1970's, when I was a scruffy underground press reporter, and he was the young minister who had marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and was there when Dr.

16 WAPT'S OMOSE IGHODARO WAS AT THE MISSISSIPPI BLUES MARATHON AND HAS MORE. STANDUP: THIS IS THE 19TH EDITION OF THE BLUES MARATHON EVENT AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SHOWED UP SATURDAY MORNING. RUNNERS ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson will be memorialized in Chicago during funeral services in the coming weeks, his family said on Wednesday. The civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate died ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of 84. The icon of the Civil Rights Movement and beyond was ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's decades of activism included a record of profound eloquence. The civil rights icon, who died on Feb. 17 at the age of 84, delivered a number of powerful speeches and ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon, Baptist minister and two-time Democratic presidential candidate. A protege of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson fought on the front lines of the battle ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. touched many lives, including many in Mississippi. For years, he was a leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and was a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "He ...

According to a news release, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a domestic disturbance call in the Gulf Park Estates Community on Monday, Feb. 9, at around 2:45 p.m. Deputies found that ...

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Georgia businessman Rick Jackson is entering the race for governor, pitching himself as a conservative outsider shaped by hardship who says his life story proves results matter more than politics. In ...