Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

Reverend Jesse Jackson’s first presidential campaign was as electrifying as anything I had witnessed in my short life.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was in Birmingham on a summer day in 2008 and visited with the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the final ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, has died at 84. Mississippi leaders share their ...

Jackson had a special connection to Oakland, said Mayor Barbara Lee, who was a close friend of the late civil rights icon.

"He knew he would get attention coming to Jackson, and he knew that by moving the needle forward in Mississippi, he could ...

The late civil rights leader launched protests against the lack of movie and TV diversity, accusing the industry of ...

Atlanta’s historically Black colleges are honoring the legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who championed ...

Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday, fought for equality as a civil rights protester, a presidential candidate, and a champion of ...

Those paying tribute to the late civil rights leader include LA Mayor Karen Bass, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and ...