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

Marshall's Music & Bookstore, one of the oldest Black-owned bookstores in the U.S., continues to preserve Black culture and ...

Al Letson revisits a story about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that he produced 16 years ago for Black History Month.

Michael Douglas reveals he wasn't Oliver Stone's first choice for "Wall Street." Warren Beatty and Richard Gere both passed ...

Jackson would go on to become an American civil and human rights icon; an influential politician and presidential candidate; ...

From boycotts to Black-owned banks, here are five lessons from Jesse Jackson’s legacy that still shape how we build wealth and economic power today.

His life demonstrated the success of the civil-rights movement in opening political doors long closed to black Americans.

Jackson helped shape the Civil Rights Movement, leading it after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He went on to found the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. In D.C., he represented the ...

The death of Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Chicago civil rights leader and political trailblazer who worked alongside Dr. Martin ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson played an outsize role in American civic life, but less well remembered is how he used his influence to change Wall Street. In the mid-1990s, Jackson launched ...