Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd looks at how the different ideas and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Jesse Jackson impacted the direction of the Civil Rights Movement. Peniel Joseph, ...

As former Atlanta Falcons head coach Jerry Glanville once said, "This is the NFL, which stands for not for long." The league is even less patient today than it was 35 years ago. Everything is ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Back in February 2010, the radio show State of the Re:Union, created by Al Letson, ...

The family of Rev. Jesse Jackson said he died peacefully Tuesday morning at age 84. Milwaukee activist Janette Mitchell-Herrera recalled marching with Jackson for decades in civil rights fights.

Civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. Jackson worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was present at his assassination in 1968.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The legacy of Samuel Wyche, a pioneering Philadelphia police detective who also served as a bodyguard for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is being kept alive through the memories of ...

Martin Luther King III, the son of civil rights advocate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., accused the National Park Service on Thursday of “sanitizing history” amid reported changes at a Mississippi ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - According to a media tip sheet from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, a ‘Martin Luther King Jr. Day Exhibit Opening and Award Presentation’ ...

These historic addresses are of great importance as they document the personal and political development of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. grew up in Atlanta before becoming a ...

Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., denounced distortions of her father’s legacy amidst the current political climate at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day keynote speech on Jan. 28.