The National Civil Rights Museum is hosting a three-day free public commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that will conclude on April 4, the 58th anniversary of the day the civil rights leader ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights champion, is dead. He was 84. Jackson, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and a two-time Democratic presidential candidate, was a hugely influential voice in ...

A ceremony was held at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis to mark the 58th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Human rights activist Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu delivered ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) - A half century ago, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis to march in support of the city's striking sanitation workers. It was the last trip the Baptist minister ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights champion, is dead. He was 84. The two men had worked together since 1965, when they met in Selma, ...