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

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

The civil rights icon, who died at 84, had a long history in North and South Carolina. What to know about Jesse Jackson.

Mr. Jackson often spoke about Greenville, S.C., in his speeches, returning home several times to fight for change — and for a ...

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the Chicago-based Baptist minister, political figure and two-time presidential candidate, has died.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's influence went far beyond his home state of South Carolina. People from all walks of life remember the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — North Carolina and the nation are remembering civil rights icon Jesse Jackson who passed away ...

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

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

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

Jackson believed in a brighter, more beautiful America even when the naysayers could not.

The late Jesse Jackson, born in Greenville, S.C., seemed destined for leadership, thanks in part to the people he knew and early experiences he had in the state.