Church Historian Vallerie Ellis remembers Rev. Jesse Jackson's visit to Mt. Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church in 1994. The civil rights leader died Tuesday.

Sen. Darryl Rouson has confirmed that he is still considering running for House, despite a report circulating on the last day ...

In a crowded field seeking to replace outgoing U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, candidates have wrestled over how to stand up to President Donald Trump amid heavy outside spending in the Chicago race.

What are the religious and racial aspects of liberating U.S. democracy from authoritarianism? A recent conference at United ...

Rev. Bernard Lafayette, who led the 1965 voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, an effort marked by violence toward civil ...

The Illinois General Assembly has a number of primary races on Tuesday that could eventually bring fresh faces to the ...

As Chicago says goodbye to Reverend Jesse Jackson, ABC7 is taking a look at the work being done to protect civil rights and ...

James Talarico, the Democratic nominee from Texas, hopes to counter what he sees as a conservative takeover of the American church.

Religion played a key role in midterm primaries in Texas March 3. A Presbyterian seminarian secured the Democratic nomination ...

Jasmine Crockett’s radical activist pastor, Dallas megachurch leader Frederick Haynes III, cruised to victory in his primary ...

WASHINGTON – Several North Texas evangelical leaders are publicly vouching for Sen. John Cornyn’s morality and conservative credentials as the longtime incumbent faces a fierce Republican runoff with ...

James Talarico, in one of his first interviews since winning the Democratic nomination for Senate in Texas, attacked the use of Christianity to promote conservative politics, saying his candidacy was ...