ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A traveling exhibit honoring civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. opened at the Northwest Library in Albany this week, bringing national history back to its Southwest Georgia ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering figure of the American civil rights movement whose advocacy for racial justice, economic equality and voting rights spanned decades, has ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon, two-time Democratic presidential candidate and Greenville native, has died at the age of 84.

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council will be asked to approve a search for the remains of a Black civil rights activist who disappeared during the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff. He is likely buried on the ...

BOHEMIA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York school district is “erasing its Native American heritage” and violating civil rights law by changing its team name from the “Thunderbirds” to the “T-Birds,” federal ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The nation and the world are mourning the loss of civil rights leader and political figure Jesse Jackson, who passed away today at 84-years-old. The Greenville, South ...

The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday announced that the Connetquot school district violated civil rights law when it agreed to rebrand as the "T-Birds" to comply with the state's ban on Native ...

GREENVILLE — Jesse Jackson, who rose from poverty in Upstate South Carolina to become the most visible civil rights voice of his generation while standing alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and making ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Civil rights activist and Greenville native Reverend Jesse Jackson has died at 84. Jackson was born in Greenville and became well-known during the Civil Rights Era, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Greenville native and iconic American civil rights leader who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther ...