May Jackson News Today

Helena Hicks, a civil rights advocate who led a 1950s protest to desegregate the old Read’s drug store lunch counter, died of pneumonia complicated by Lewy body dementia Thursday at the William L. and Victorine Q. Adams Gilchrist Center Baltimore. She was 88 and lived in Northwest Baltimore. “We think of our historic personalities primarily as male figures but it really was our amazing women ...

The books this month are related to Black History Month as well as a scattering of good books to get one through the dreary month of February.

Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson are parting ways.

Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson are parting ways.

Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson are parting ways.

Forthright and quietly ferocious, Jackson won multiple awards on stage and screen before a long break from acting to become a Labour MP.

Glenda Jackson, the two-time Oscar winner who renounced a successful film and stage career in her 50s to become a member of the British Parliament, th

Glenda Jackson, who segued from an Oscar-winning actress into a 23-year career as member of the U.K.'s House of Commons, has died.

Oscar-winning actress and Labour politician - who had a withering contempt for Hollywood - dies at 87.

Ms. Jackson was a two-time Oscar winner who walked away from a successful acting career to become a member of the British Parliament, before then returning to the stage.