How Jesse Jackson Took King’s Civil Rights Movement to Company Doorsteps

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

Community honors Martin Luther King Jr. Civil rights leader had lived in Connecticut twice.

I’m here to make trouble – good trouble. Good trouble is what we need now because we are in the fight of our lives. The fight ...
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A Look Back at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Family Photos on What Would Have Been His 97th Birthday

The revered Civil Rights leader was assassinated on April 4. 1968 at just 39 years old Stephanie Sengwe is a pop culture enthusiast with over 10 years of experience working as a digital writer, editor ...
Detroit Metro Times

This play about Martin Luther King Jr. reminds us that imperfection is inherently human

This review contains spoilers for The Mountaintop. As soon as Brian Sullivan Taylor, who plays Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in ...
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Community leaders from Chicago and around the world pay tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a two-time presidential candidate who led the ...
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Champion of the voiceless: The enduring legacy of Reverend Jesse Jackson

Be it leading economic boycotts under Operation Breadbasket or building his own activism platforms later, Jackson in his career kept shifting directions but the overall impetus of the work and the ...
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Local pastor honors the life of late Reverend Jesse Jackson

Reverend Jackson came to West Virginia several times, including a visit to Charleston in 1988 during his second run for president as well as a stay with a Logan family during a 1984 visit to southern ...