The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, died at the age of 84 after a long illness, leaving behind a legacy of activism, faith, and political organizing that ...

For 60 years, nine mayors have had no choice but to contend with the famed civil rights activist, and sometimes defer to him even though they often didn’t like it. They could not afford to do ...

Across Alabama, a state central to the struggle that shaped his life’s work, reactions from officials to his death have ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr ...

One school administrator in Fayetteville said his friendship with Rev. Jesse Jackson changed his life forever.

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

From the moment the Rev. Jesse Jackson stepped forward as torchbearer to what was then a largely Southern civil rights ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the country's most influential leaders, has died at 84. The founder and long-time leader of the ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, died ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who dedicated his life to fighting for civil and human rights ...

WWE Global Ambassador Titus O’Neil paid an emotional tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson following news that the civil rights icon ...