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The lead lawyer for celebrated death-row inmate Mumia?Abu-Jamal has quit the case days before a key appeals court hearing, amid...

U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Jesse?Jackson called Tuesday for an African version of the Marshall Plan, saying the continent deserved...

Massachusetts Gov. Deval?Patrick bucked the anti-incumbent, pro-Republican trend and won a second term Tuesday with the help of some of...

On the Sunday before Election Day, preachers told black churchgoers across the country to get out and vote ? and...

Florida’s three-way Senate race grew testier Friday as the last-place Democratic candidate denied claims that former President Bill Clinton had...

He has been battling for civil rights in America for decades. Now, the?Reverend Jesse Jackson has headed to the UK...

More than 300 boxes of Maya Angelou’s personal papers, including letters from Malcolm X and James Baldwin and several scribbled...

Marion?Jones wants you to know she’s sorry. Not so much about the performance-enhancing drugs she took ? unknowingly, she says...

Illinois Congressman Jesse?Jackson Jr. says he’s decided not to run for Chicago mayor, slightly narrowing the field in the race...