Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated lunch counters in 1960.

Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated lunch counters in 1960.

These Black activists fought for civil rights over decades. Here are their warnings, and advice, for American protesters today.

Rosalie Silberman Abella, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, offered a wide-ranging exploration of the differences between American and Canadian constitutional jurisprudence when she ...

Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson leaves behind a movement that lacks a single unifying leader, but his legacy of inclusion could help it carry on.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and in the 1980s reshaped Democratic politics with two galvanizing ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. More than a year after the devastating Eaton fire — and following months of mounting pressure from survivors — ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson's office has denied a request to have the late Rev. Jesse Jackson lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda due to past precedent. Born from his civil rights work with Dr.