Republicans are starting to have a conversation about the 2028 primaries even though the midterm elections are still more than eight months away. With President Donald Trump term-limited and ...

DeSantis will join House A&R Chair Jason Petrie to present a resolution calling for a U.S. constitutional amendment on balanced budgets.

Retired attorney and longtime trustee Brad Nahrstadt ’89 will deliver Monmouth College’s 2026 Commencement address on May 17.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran ...

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

As a movement builder, spokesperson, and candidate for the presidency, Jesse Jackson’s accomplishments were massive. He was one of the towering figures of American progressive politics in his era — or ...

When the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for the country to realize its highest ideals.

Jesse Jackson’s two campaigns for president, in 1984 and 1988, were unsuccessful but historic. The civil rights activist and organizer, who died on Feb. 17, 2026, helped pave the way for Barack ...

“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson intoned in 1984 during his address at the Democratic National Convention in ...

Jackson visited the region several times over the course of his career. Local activists who knew him said he was a steadfast voice for peace.