The year is 2011 and two political giants meet in Londonderry, the birthplace of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement ...

Danielle Wiggins, a historian at Georgetown University, says Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 campaigns used rhetoric, tactics ...

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

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

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

The late Rev. Jesse Jackson might best be remembered as a longtime civil rights leader, but he also played a pivotal role in ...

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the two-time presidential candidate and activist who was the dominant figure in Black politics from ...

From Newark to Camden, Garden State activists recall Jackson's visits, his rallying cry "I am somebody" and his fight for ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died at age 84, visited the Metro Detroit area many times over the years. Local religious leaders ...

Born on Oct. 8, 1941, in a segregated community in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson’s hunger for justice emerged early, ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with CNN's Abby Phillip about the life and legacy of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, who ...