Tributes poured in after the death of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson aged 84. His family called him a servant leader to the oppressed, noting years living with progressive supranuclear palsy and ...

Danielle Wiggins, a historian at Georgetown University, says Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 campaigns used rhetoric, tactics, and policy that would greatly benefit Democrats today.

Political experts said Jackson's 1988 presidential run paved the way for the election of New York’s first Black mayor the following year.

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

A young member of the Nation of Islam holds a sign at a protest organized by Rev. Al Sharpton leads a protest in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan, NY, protesting Donald Trump‘s full-page ad calling ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has died. He was 84. Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King and became a leader of the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King was assassinated in 1968.

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

Eulogies are pouring in after the death of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, who led the U.S. Civil Rights Movement for decades. The ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson was a prominent leader in the fight for civil rights beginning in the 60s and ran for president twice in the 80s.

Jessie Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States for decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., died Tuesday. He was 84.

Jackson, founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and a leader in Chicago since the '60s, died Tuesday, his family said. He was ...

Jesse Jackson Sr., a longtime civil rights activist who twice vied for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1980s, died February 17 at age 84.A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson was ...