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Funeral services for Bishop Hamel Hartford Brookins, a former pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, will be held June 1 at the church, his family and church officials have announced. The services for Brookins, who also was a civil rights leader and political power broker for Democratic politicians, will be held that Friday at 11 a.m. at First AME Church, 2270 S...

Chicago is girding for the opening of the NATO Summit on May 20. The ministers and heads of state will be greeted by a rich...

Democratic Representative Jesse Jackson Jr accused Pakistan of "harboring a fugitive" and likened the US-Pakistan relationship to a "bad marriage."

Gil Noble, the longtime host of WABC-TV's groundbreaking public affairs program "Like It Is," where he interviewed such notables as Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali and Jesse Jackson, died Thursday. He was 80.

The House voted on a nearly party-line, 228-191 vote Thursday afternoon to approve House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's budget. But 10 Republicans voted against the plan. They are: Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Joe Barton (Texas), John Duncan (Tenn.), Chris Gibson (N.Y.), Walter Jones (N.C.), Tim Huelskamp (Kan.), David McKinley (W.Va), Todd Platts (Pa.), Denny Rehberg (Mont.), and Ed Whitfield (Ky....

Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson called slain teen Trayvon Martin a martyr during an appearance at a Florida church.

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Speaking outside the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., Rev. Jesse Jackson talks about the loss of Whitney Houston and how her daughter Bobbi Kristina is faring.

Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson says Don Cornelius showed an unparalleled strength that broke down musical, cultural and racial barriers through his creation of ‘Soul Train’.

CHICAGO (AP) -- The former congresswoman and one-time Mary Kay saleswoman dashed up to the pulpit of the black megachurch and offered stories of growing up poor and raising two children on her own as she tried to win the congregation's support for her bid to unseat Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr....

(Reuters) - Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday urged Grammy organizers to reinstate 31 ethnic and minority musical categories that have been cut from the music industry's top awards.

The US civil rights activist says the "two trophies" convicted of murdering Stephen Lawrence should not distract political leaders from the wider problems of racism in the UK.

Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr. of Illinois said his staff used Congressional resources in his campaign to be appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama in 2008.

The House Ethics Committee announced Friday that it is continuing to investigate whether Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. or an "emissary" engaged in fund-raising efforts for then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.

Indian Americans gathered for a fund raiser to support Illinois' Democratic representative Jesse Jackson Jr.'s re-election campaign.

Taghi Amirani, who's running a Kickstarter for a documentary called "We Are Many," writes, "The film is about the global protest movement linking the massive global Iraq War protests of Feb 15 2003 to the Arab Spring and now the Occupy movement. It tells the remarkable story of people power taking center stage. Actor and [...]

The Rev. Jesse Jackson has joined black lawmakers in their push to get the White House to do more to directly help African American communities disproportionately hurt by the nation's severe economic recession.