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 ...

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.

Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin ...

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 ...

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

How Jesse Jackson helped to make the term ‘African American’ mainstream - He saw it as a way to reflect the community’s ...

Sally Nugent and Jon Kay led tributes on the BBC morning show as they remembered the civil rights icon who died peacefully surrounded by family.