After nearly five hours, the homegoing for the civil rights icon came to a close after a host of speakers gave their memories and praise.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: March 13, 2017 ...

The Michigan synagogue that came under attack this week when an armed man drove his car into the building had for months been ...

Shirley “Jean” Alexander was born on September 8, 1939, in Fulton County, Kentucky, to the late Edrell Bransford Mosley and Melvin Barnett. She was affectionately known to her husband and children as ...

The first newspapers of Butler County were very different from what people today would think of as a newspaper. According to “The Press and America” by Edwin Emery, early newspapers were small weekly ...

Shirley “Jean” Alexander was born on Sept. 8, 1939, in Fulton County, Ky., to the late Edrell Bransford Mosley and Melvin Barnett. She was affectionately known to her husband and children as “Myrtle ...

Nominations for the 2026 Clallam County Community Service Awards are open. The 46th annual awards, presented by Peninsula Daily News, the Soroptimist International of Port Angeles-Noon Club and the ...

Sybil Hayes Hughes passed to be with the Lord on March 7, 2026, in Columbia. Sybil Hayes was born in Pickens, on July 1, 1935, to Ossie and Ernestine Hayes. She was married to Glen Hughes in 1949 at ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Mourners gather for the final homegoing service for Rev. Jesse Jackson at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters, 930 E. 50th St., on the South Side on March 7.

The city of Tallahassee is flexing their road renaming abilities once again as they look to rename a street after the late Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Politics / “He took the ministry from Sunday morning, and he delivered it to the people,” the younger Jackson said. John Nichols CHICAGO—The most compelling message to be delivered during last week’s ...

From the segregated South to student leadership at NC A&T in the 1960s, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s HBCU roots and lifelong commitment to Black advancement made politics unavoidable.