Jesse Jackson's life and activism reflect the ongoing impact of Southern politics on American elections. His story is a testament to the enduring power of the civil rights movement.

The older son, named for his father, is the more obviously wayward. Raised to uphold Solomon’s political legacy, Junior ...

Dr. Bernard Harris, Jr., the first African American to walk in space, reflects on his 30-year legacy and looks ahead to his ...

This bombshell-littered house belongs to the Jaspers, a powerful black political dynasty whose controversies and scandals ...

Jenkins' latest play, starring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young, observes a powerful Black family during a chaotic ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.

The salt-and-pepper-haired dad, Solomon (Harry Lennix), is obviously modeled on Jesse Jackson ... minister and was an activist alongside Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement.

Radio stations at historically Black colleges and universities have always played a special role in connecting the schools to ...

Jenkins could have written Broadway’s blistering “Purpose” and had the chutzpah, or the clout, to so eviscerate a powerful, ...

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...