On Tuesday night, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute kicked off its 18th Legacy Youth Leadership Program, an effort to transform Birmingham’s civil rights history into a ...

At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while ...

Many New York leaders are sharing their thoughts after famed civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson died Tuesday morning.

Jesse Jackson was laid to rest in Chicago this week as political leaders, civil rights figures, and longtime allies gathered to honor the towering activist […] ‘I’m Surprised’: Presidents and Civil Ri ...

A delegation from the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission will travel to Selma, Alabama on March 7 & 8 to commemorate ...

Jackson’s body lay in repose at his Rainbow/Push Coalition headquarters as thousands visited to pay their respects ...

Oklahoma's new app, the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail, aims to preserve and educate the public on the state's rich civil rights history by connecting historic all-Black towns and key civil rights ...

Six sites across Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Florida join the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, including a courthouse tied to Loving v. Virginia.

Rutha Mae Harris, the final surviving member of the original Freedom Singers, continues her work in Albany, Georgia, six decades after the Civil Rights Movement. She remains dedicated to showing ...

The untimely death of the renowned civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, aged 84, brought many tributes from people across the United States of America and the world over.

More than any other individual, Jackson embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement—its conversion from a mass ...

The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died, a Rainbow Push Coalition spokesperson confirmed ...