Eric Ward has been advocating for civil rights for more than 30 years as a writer, community organizer, and now executive VP of the nonprofit racial-justice organization, Race Forward. Amid the ...

MOORHEAD — The first Black reporter at The Forum, Carl Griffin, had a saying: "Things are going to be hard, so get ready." "The polite radical," a nickname he reportedly loved, died Feb. 18, just days ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King’s assassination, ...