JESSE JACKSON

Whitney Houston's funeral on Saturday is expected to be televised and streamed on the Web live from the New Jersey church, her publicist told the media Wednesday. Houston's service will be held at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark and Houston's rep reportedly told RumorFix that The Associated Press will live stream the service that begins at noon.

Coroners on Sunday completed their autopsy on the body of singer Whitney Houston and confirmed that she was found in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room, but said the cause of death would not be determined until more lab tests were completed.

Coroners on Sunday completed their autopsy on the body of singer Whitney Houston and confirmed that she was found in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room, but said the cause of death would not be determined until more lab tests were completed.

Mitt Romney will receive Secret Service protection starting Wednesday, the day after he won the Florida primary by a 14-point margin over Newt Gingrich.

Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday urged Grammy organizers to reinstate 31 ethnic and minority musical categories that have been cut from the music industry's top awards.

Most people commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day turn to his iconic I Have a Dream speech. But King gave another famous speech the night before he died, known as the Promised Land or Mountaintop speech. In it, he alluded to his imminent assassination and the legacy he would leave behind. Listen to the audio file, watch the video, and read the full text of Dr. King's final speech here.

A 2009 report from the Office of Congressional Ethics said there was probable cause to believe Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois agreed to raise campaign money for Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for a Senate seat.

On Thursday, Herman Cain became just the 12th presidential candidate in history to receive Secret Service protection during his campaign.

Many will remember Frazier as one of the greatest heavyweights in history.

Actress Ruby Dee's death was being reported all over social media, and especially Twitter, Tuesday and Wednesday, but it turns out the actress was fine all along.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday that Herman Cain shouldn't play the race card in responding to the allegations that he sexually harassed two female employees when he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association.

As for Cain, he has handled the slings and arrows thrust upon him with humor, charm and aplomb.

The father was reportedly upset about having been moved to the night shift at work

I will always have fond memories of Andy Rooney. He offered to sit down for a dual interview with Conan O'Brien. I thought two cantankerous comedians would make a good, interesting interview.

Moore undermines his positions by his endless hypocrisies.

White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening in Texas for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.

During every presidential campaign season, a number of underdog candidates decide to run for the White House – most of whom have no hopes of ever getting elected.

Thirty-five percent of Americans surveyed in an August Gallup poll said race relations in the U.S. have improved since President Obama's election, a decline from the 70 percent who predicted it would get better directly after the 2008 election.

?We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him,? he said.

At least one died and three injured when a young man fired a gun during a fight near a family unity festival in Cleveland, police said on Sunday.

A fistfight that began near a family unity festival headlined by funk musician George Clinton ended in gunfire, killing one and injuring three, Cleveland police said on Sunday. During the fight in a parking lot near the concert venue on Saturday, one teenager produced a handgun and shot four people. One victim, a 16-year-old male, died from a wound to the head Sunday morning, Cleveland police spokesman Sammy Morris said.