Jackson was touted as “King’s successor” after the civil rights icon was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where the two had just reconciled.

“Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love,” by the late Rev. James Lawson Jr. and Memphis journalist Emily Yellin releases Feb. 17, nearly two years after Lawson's death. Yellin shares ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson entered the national spotlight during the civil rights movement and ran for president twice. He also courted controversy while in the public eye.

Legendary civil rights activist Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. The iconic Baptist minister and two-time ...

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A new documentary in development is turning its focus to Coretta Scott King-not just as the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., but as a determined figure who spent decades questioning the official story ...

Earl William James, 87, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, at Chateau Girardeau. He was born Sept. 30, 1938, in Cape Girardeau to J. Frank and Esther Anita Siemers James. He and Mary Rose ...

In the midst of all this panic and face-off is where James vanished. James ran off into the woods in the confusion of it and was lost. It is not mentioned at the end of the Under Salt Marsh Episode 5 ...

James “Lap” Baker, a survivor of the 1970 Jackson State University campus shooting, has died. Baker was present when police and state troopers killed two students and injured dozens during protests.