“Jesse Jackson is one of the very most significant political leaders in this country in the last 100 years,” declared Senator Bernie Sanders, summarizing the importance of Jackson’s remarkable life ...
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.
Jesse Jackson’s death represents perhaps the end of two eras. He was an icon of the Religious Left and of the historic black church, both of which have receded from public life, the former almost into ...
Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, has died at 84. Mississippi leaders share their ...
"He knew he would get attention coming to Jackson, and he knew that by moving the needle forward in Mississippi, he could ...
How Jesse Jackson helped to make the term ‘African American’ mainstream - He saw it as a way to reflect the community’s ...
Atlanta’s historically Black colleges are honoring the legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who championed ...
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 ...
Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was in Birmingham on a summer day in 2008 and visited with the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the final ...
Community activists in the Twin Cities are mourning the loss of Rev. Jesse Jackson, who passed away in Chicago at the age of ...