Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon, will be honored with a celebration of life in Chicago this week after he died at 84.

Jackson’s vocal advocacy caused a shift in both behavior and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS. He helped chart a course of action that led to improved prevention and treatments.

The official trailer for Michael has arrived, offering audiences an early look at the big-screen portrait of Michael Jackson and the path that carried him from child performer to global superstar.

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The Cascio siblings claim the King of Pop began abusing members of their family when some of them were as young as 7 or 8 years old.

Our Back Pages / The candidate may have started as a long-shot contender, but The Nation always took him—and his impact on political history—seriously. Richard Kreitner In the spring of 1983, as the ...

A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture, Fab 5 Freddy recounts how graffiti, rap music, and break dancing came ...

Activists say racial progress won by the Rev. Jesse Jackson is under threat, as a new generation of leaders works to preserve hard-fought civil rights gains.

On October 8th, 1941, Jesse Jackson was born into a world where he could not walk into the same buildings as his white neighbors or check out a book at the local library. He could not go to school ...