Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greg Mathis, Jesse Jackson, theGrio.com “He was a father figure…the most influential person, male in my life,” Mathis told theGrio ...

Judge Greg Mathis reflects on the “father figure” influence Rev. Jesse Jackson had on his life after first meeting the civil rights leader as a troubled teenager. Judge Greg Mathis is honoring the ...

Judge Greg Mathis sits down with theGrio's Gerren Keith Gaynor to reflect on the life and legacy of his mentor Rev. Jesse Jackson, whom he met in the 1970s from a Detroit jail. "There would really be ...

An 18-year-old Columbia man was killed in a midday shooting Thursday, and the man accused in his death appeared in court for the first time Friday afternoon. Lexington County investigators are ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's life and legacy were celebrated at an emotional funeral service in Columbia, South Carolina.

Teachers claim House Bill 1775 goes too far in chilling classroom discussion rather than simply preventing their endorsement of discriminatory ideas.

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...

A Georgia cop who entered a Black man’s home without a warrant, shooting and killing the unarmed man in his bed after startling him awake, […] ...

A Waco man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Monday in the 2024 shooting death of a man whose body he later dumped in the Brazos River.

A former Georgia cop who entered a Black man’s home without a warrant in 2022 and shot him to death was spared prison time by a judge in February 2026. Russell Mathis, a former DeKalb County police ...

Jesse Jackson Sr. funeral service in Chicago: Rabbi Sharon Brous and Rabbi Steven B. Jacobs speak, followed by TV’s Judge Greg Mathis.

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — After nearly nine years of litigation, the city of Columbus has settled a wrongful death suit with the family of a man killed in a 2017 police chase. The city council voted last ...