The late Jesse Jackson twice sought the Democratic nomination for president – and though he fell short in 1984 and 1988, his insurgent campaigns reshaped American politics and laid the groundwork for ...

Civil Rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., whose career took him from his early collaboration with Martin Luther King to creating the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to two runs for the presidency and ...

Bishop James E. Dixon II, pastor of Community of Faith Church, shared a photo of Jackson seated and smiling alongside Dixon and Rev. Bill Lawson the longtime Houston civil rights leader and founder of ...

A giant has returned home. Words cannot fully capture the life, legacy, and complete impact of the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

People in the metro area are mourning the death of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson. His family says he died at the age of 84. Jackson touched so many lives here in the Atlanta area. He helped ...

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

Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., a Civil Rights icon, passed away on Tuesday after a long career of fighting for justice, equality, ...

By 1965, Jackson became heavily involved in the civil rights movement, joining Martin Luther King Jr.’s march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Jackson was there with King in ...

My religion obligates me to be political, but my politics don’t obligate me to be religious,” said Jackson — frequently introduced to audiences as the Country Preacher — at a 1985 news ...

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Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a civil rights nonprofit led by late activist Jesse Jackson, maintains a presence in Michigan. Here's ...

He made Black America believe not just in more equality, but they could achieve political equality,” Bolden said.