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 kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years despite challenges over his health, the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators.

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

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was in Birmingham on a summer day in 2008 and visited with the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the final ...

Jackson had a special connection to Oakland, said Mayor Barbara Lee, who was a close friend of the late civil rights icon.

"He knew he would get attention coming to Jackson, and he knew that by moving the needle forward in Mississippi, he could ...

President Donald Trump issued a statement Tuesday on the death of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson that included ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister and civil rights leader who twice sought to be the Democratic Party's nominee for ...

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

Atlanta’s historically Black colleges are honoring the legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who championed ...

Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday, fought for equality as a civil rights protester, a presidential candidate, and a champion of ...