Jesse Jackson was the first Black presidential candidate to be competitive, blazing a trail for Barack Obama's path to the White House.

We got the happy word some time ago that Chicago was pushing for a return of the Democratic National Convention to the United Center in 2028 and had been led to believe that it was within the realm of ...

Activism / Obituary / The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

Section 1. National Emergency. As President of the United States, I have an imperative duty to protect the national security and foreign policy of this country. I find that the policies, practices, ...

Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., whose impassioned plea to “Keep hope alive!” buoyed Black America through transformative political, social and economic campaigns over a seven-decade career in public ...

THIS MOURNING: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the fiery civil rights activist and two-time presidential candidate who transformed Chicago politics while reshaping the national Democratic Party, has died. He ...

Illinois and 11 other states vying to become an early primary nominating state for the 2028 Democratic presidential campaign — a move that could boost a potential White House bid by Gov. JB Pritzker — ...

From Fannie Lou Hamer to Shirley Chisholm, these extraordinary Black woman changed the world forever.

In February, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) reached the milestone of 100,000 members, with nearly 14,000 of them in New York City alone. The election of Zohran Mamdani, a longtime DSA activist ...