How Jesse Jackson embodied Southern politics − and changed American elections
A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political ...
Jackson apologizes for 'crude' Obama remarks
Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for "crude and hurtful" remarks he made about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama after an interview with a Fox News correspondent. The remarks came ...
‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...
Music flows in Roberta Flack's 'Celebration of Life' memorial with Stevie Wonder and Al Sharpton
Musical performances featured in a memorial ceremony for Grammy-winning singer and pianist Roberta Flack in New York.
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Stevie Wonder and the Rev Al Sharpton feature at Roberta Flack memorial
A public memorial service bursting with choral music and the Berklee College of Music’s Nebulous String Quartet, with Stevie ...
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Dallas pastor steps down as CEO of Rainbow PUSH Coalition months after taking over from Rev. Jesse Jackson
the civil rights group founded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the 1970s, just a bit over two months after taking the role. Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III, who's led Friendship-West Baptist ...
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Stevie Wonder and the Rev Al Sharpton feature at Roberta Flack memorial
But I also want you to understand that this woman was also a pure genius,” Santita Jackson, daughter of the Rev Jesse Jackson and a friend of Flack, told the near-capacity crowd.
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Longtime pastor, activist Rev. M.L. Curry has died
DALLAS – New St. Paul Baptist Church announced the death of Reverend M.L. Curry, East Texas native and longtime pastor of New Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Dallas. Born in Big Sandy in ...