Tag: Rights

By Steven Ragsdale This previous weekend, hundreds gathered in Alabama for the annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee Celebration, retracing the ...

by Ann Brown March 8, 2026 'He was one of many nice academics of nonviolence in our time,' Martin Luther ...

by Jeroslyn JoVonn March 5, 2026 A white lady in New Hampshire is dealing with a civil rights grievance after ...

By Ashlee BanksSpecial to the AFRO Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the civil rights titan and two-time presidential candidate who rose ...

After I left The Legacy Museum after visiting for the primary time, I knew I’d by no means be the ...

Our Roots – Jesse Jackson *He was using such a wave of affect in 1984—proper in the intervening time he ...

The Late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will lie in state in his hometown’s state capitol. Subsequent Monday, March 2, the ...

By Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.President and CEO, Nationwide Newspaper Publishers Affiliation (NNPA NEWSWIRE) – God at all times ...

Overview: Born in segregated South Carolina, Jackson minimize his tooth as an activist in school, main marches and sit-ins, earlier ...

Proven right here, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07) (left), with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and former Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke. (AFRO ...