Tag: Jesse Jackson

(AURN News) — On this day 45 years ago, Aug. 10, 1981, a boycott of Coca-Cola led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson‘s…

(AURN News) — Tony Brown, the longtime host and producer of “Tony Brown’s Journal,” died June 17 at his home in Newport…

(AURN News) — Ronald Smothers, a veteran journalist who spent 35 years at The New York Times covering protest, politics and racial…

(AURN News) — Tomorrow marks 58 years since Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee,…

(AURN News) — Pioneering radio broadcaster and activist Bob Law has died at 86, Newsday reported. The Brooklyn native built a decades-long…

(AURN News) — Speakers at the homegoing service for civil rights leader Jesse Louis Jackson recalled the chants and phrases that defined…

WASHINGTON (AURN News) — The nation begins its final farewell today to a titan of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Jesse…

(AURN News) — Funeral arrangements have been released for civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Lewis Jackson Sr. Public events will take…

(AURN News) — Rev. Jesse Jackson died at age 84 on Feb. 17, 2026, in Chicago after a lengthy illness, leaving a…

(AURN News) — President Donald Trump posted a tribute to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson that later took a political turn. “The…

(AURN News) — Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at age 84. This morning, Rev. Al Sharpton called him one of the nation’s…

(AURN News) — On this day in 1983, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his historic run for president of…