Jesse Jackson’s two campaigns for president, in 1984 and 1988, were unsuccessful but historic. The civil rights activist and ...

Former Little Rock Mayor Lottie Shackelford discussed the passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson as well as what his legacy and impact ...

Washington - Charismatic US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South ...

Santita Jackson, the daughter of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, on Tuesday remembered her father as a courageous man who would ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president in the 1980s and led the Rainbow/PUSH ...

Both men sought the presidency. They came from different backgrounds, held different goals, and had radically different ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States — Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday aged 84, had a three-pronged career of civil rights, liberal missions, and political activism, and his White House bids in the 1980s ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a lifelong civil rights advocate until his death Tuesday at the age of 84.

On the comedy program, Jackson paid tribute to famed author Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel, who had recently passed ...

The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died ...

My religion obligates me to be political, but my politics don’t obligate me to be religious,” said Jackson — frequently introduced to audiences as the Country Preacher — at a 1985 news ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate who died Feb. 17, advocated for years for ...