The 36-year-old Irishwoman also discusses how she was shaped by Dame Judi Dench, the use of dreams in her acting, and the ambivalence of being in the public eye, at times wishing "the ground would ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) denied a request to allow the late Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol, drawing a rebuke from the NAACP civil rights organization. “Mike Johnson ...

Washington — President Trump on Tuesday extended sympathies to the family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson following his death at 84 and called the civil rights leader a "force of nature like few others ...

I am who I am today in part because of a speech I heard in fifth grade at Matthew A. Henson Elementary School in Baltimore. It was 1970, and the auditorium was full of little Black boys and girls, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Our first encounter with Jesse Jackson was at a corporate annual meeting in Chicago in the early 1980s. He rose to make what was already his signature pitch for companies to contribute to his ...

Jesse Jackson campaigning in Baltimore as he runs for president in 1988. (Baltimore Sun file photo) Jesse Jackson visits Baltimore in 1984 during is presidential campaign. (Baltimore Sun file photo) ...

Jesse Jackson mesmerized America for decades. He championed civil rights in the 1960s. His Operation PUSH rode the waves of black empowerment and employment in the ’70s. He challenged young Americans ...

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), the son of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, said Tuesday that his father “did not see himself as a politician” but rather viewed politics as a vehicle to ...

• The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died at age 84. His son, Jesse Jackson Jr., told CNN that ...

In May 1988, presidential candidate Jesse Jackson held a rally in Eugene, Oregon. An estimated 10,000 people packed into McArthur Court to hear him speak. Jackson also addressed an overflow crowd of ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died at 84, was a civil rights icon with a long history of advocacy in Arizona. He played a key role in the campaign for Arizona's MLK holiday, publicly debating the ...