Rev Jesse Jackson

As this is written, everyone wounded in the terror bombings at the Boston Marathon ha…

It was terror that shook the nation. On Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, a bomb exploded in th…

The Atlanta public school cheating scandal is but “the tip of the iceberg,” repor…

April 4 will mark the 45th year since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Dr. King, 39, at the t…

Imagine Gov. George Wallace of Alabama in 1963 appointing an emergency manager in Birmingham with broad powers to dismiss elected official…

Morehouse College, one of the most distinguished historically black colleges — with graduates like Dr. Martin Luther King, former Atlant…

Last week, President Obama sent a small delegation — featuring U.S. Reps. Gregory Meeks and William Delahunt — to attend the funeral o…

Unhealthy obsession with testing is behind rampant school cheating …

In oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the Voting Rights Act, Justice Antonin Scalia slandered the act as a “racial entitlement,

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Voting Rights Act in the case of Shelby v. Holder. On the same day, across th…

Chicago suffers unbearable levels of gun violence, yet the victims remain largely silent. They travel from funeral home to graveyard rathe…

On Saturday, family and friends gathered to mourn the loss of Hadiya Pendleton, shot to death last month at age 15 in a South Side park. M…