The proposed Metro Jackson Water Authority board has changed, reducing the city's control over appointments and shifting ...

Over a decade after finishing a stint in federal prison for a campaign finance scandal, Jesse Jackson Jr. says he has learned ...

A Commerce electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant has laid off over a third of its workforce. The news came Friday, with 958 employees being let go at the SK Battery America plant. Those ...

Keep Jackson Beautiful’ is hosting a week-long spring break cleanup from March 16 through March 20. This initiative is a key ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukay Jackson shares how a trip to Nigeria inspired her fashion brand, clean water mission and Sunday's fundraiser for Girls for a ...

Mr. Jackson “died peacefully,” surrounded by his family, the statement said. It did not say where Mr. Jackson died or the cause of his death. By The New York Times The family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson ...

His memorable appearance was brought to us by the letter ‘I,’ for inspiration. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The New York Times. A young Black man sits on a ...

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Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, is being remembered as "a role model for a generation," in the words of Marc Morial, the president of National Urban League, the civil rights ...

WITH ROOTS DEEP IN THE SOIL OF GREENVILLE. GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. JESSE LOUIS JACKSON SENIOR WAS BORN IN GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 8TH, 1941. HE ATTENDED RACIALLY SEGREGATED STERLING HIGH ...

Follow live updates as tributes pour in for Jesse Jackson. The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's life was tied tightly to the city of Chicago and its people going back to when he first arrived in the city as a theological student in 1964. Jackson was born in Greenville, ...