The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate whose booming oratory and populist message propelled the Civil Rights Movement in the decades after the assassination Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died Tuesday, February 16, 2026, his family said. He was 84. "Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, … [Read more...] about Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., a Civil Rights Icon, Passes at 84
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April 4 Marks 45th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination Thursday April 4, 2013 marks the 45th anniversary of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's. assassination in 1968. He was struck down by a sniper's bullet while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. His death is one of the saddest chapters in world history What Dr. King did for … [Read more...] about Did You Know?