Tributes have been pouring in for America's most influential Black voices, Rev Jesse Jackson.

A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson was an American political icon. But above all, he was a Southerner.

Dorris "Dee Dee" Wright recounts a memory when she and six others accompanied Jesse Jackson to a "whites-only" library in ...

Jackson lived long enough to see himself become a villain.

“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 ...

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

In a moment that feels now like eons ago, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. was greeted by a deluge of cheers at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Wheelchair-bound, he was flanked by his sons, ...

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

North Carolina A&T State University is mourning the loss of alumnus and civil rights champion Rev. Jesse Jackson. Family announced that Jackson died peacefully on ...

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

Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin ...

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.