A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political icon. But above all, he’s a Southerner.

Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed ... he cloned himself out of Martin Luther King.” In 1984, Jackson turned to politics. He became the second ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed ... he cloned himself out of Martin Luther King.” In 1984, Jackson turned to politics.

The older son, named for his father, is the more obviously wayward. Raised to uphold Solomon’s political legacy, Junior (Glenn Davis) instead tarnished it when, as a state senator, he was convicted of ...

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.

Andrew Young called me and said he thought it was fantastic, and Jesse Jackson called and said ... Some people feel that white people use Martin Luther King as a point of reference for the civil ...

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.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' latest play, starring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young ... and a shrine to Martin Luther King Jr. sits prominently on a mantle. These days, Solomon has taken ...