Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the country's most influential leaders, has died at 84. The founder and long-time leader of the Rainbow-Push Coalition ran for president twice and inspired millions.

A giant of the American civil rights struggle and a political pioneer, the Reverend Jesse Jackson now belongs to history. We examine what he did – and what he meant to ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, the legendary civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, has died. He died peacefully early ...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

Community activists in the Twin Cities are mourning the loss of Rev. Jesse Jackson, who passed away in Chicago at the age of ...

Somebody’ Though not written by Jackson, this poem became synonymous with him. He turned a verse into a rallying cry at ...

The late Jesse Jackson, born in Greenville, S.C., seemed destined for leadership, thanks in part to the people he knew and early experiences he had in the state.

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 ...

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