President Donald Trump issued a statement Tuesday on the death of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson that included insults directed at former President Barack Obama and Democrats in general.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the influential civil rights leader, Baptist minister, two-time Democratic presidential candidate, and longtime media presence who helped expand the political power of Black Am...

‘If you study, you can be somebody.’ He always said that,” Powell, who is now president of the Seattle and King County NAACP, said. “‘I am somebody.’ We went into the chant, ‘I am somebody.’ It was ju...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, has died at 84. Mississippi leaders share their reactions.

Harold Hall, who once lived in the neighborhood where Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.'s home sits, left a small bouquet outside the Jackson family’s door following the civil rights activist's death.