Valentine’s Day turned into a six‑figure celebration for one Columbus lottery player.

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

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, has died at 84. Mississippi leaders share their ...

To get around the barricades, motorists will be diverted onto a temporary detour. Those looking to head west on I-4 will need to travel east on MLK Jr. Boulevard, take a left onto 50th Street, and ...

Post Falls Mayor Randy Westlund said he believes Columbus Day is a better holiday honoring 'American heritage.' ...

From jokes about his well-known stubbornness to tears grieving the loss of a parent, the adult children of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. gave an emotional tribute Wednesday honoring the legacy of the ...

The Pi Iota Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta took time out today to serve up a hot and hearty lunch to sanitation and environmental workers in Starkville.

If you believe, as did Reagan, that America should be “a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, who brought a generation of multiracial progressives into national politics via his Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson battled alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and was regarded as one of the world's best-known ...

When the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for the country to realize its highest ideals. “If I can become president,” ...

WASHINGTON — Several rail unions are among organizations that have announced support for the Holiday Pay Act, a bill introduced last week by U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) that would require ...