FILE - From left, Vice President Joe Biden, Rev. Jesse Jackson, first lady Michelle Obama, and President Barack Obama gather ...

President Donald Trump offered his condolences to the family of Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died on Feb. 17. The two men ...

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 ...

OPINION: I was with the Rev. Jesse Jackson in San Francisco in 1984 when he delivered his "Rainbow Coalition" speech. The impact has never left me.

“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson intoned in 1984 during his address at the Democratic National Convention in ...

Local leaders pay tribute to the civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate after the 84-year-old dies.

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

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 ...

One footnote in his career is how he upended a Southern Democratic primary in 1988 intended to nominate a more moderate candidate.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, died at the age of 84 after a long illness, leaving behind a legacy of activism, faith, and political organizing that ...