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

Jackson didn’t just pave the way for Barack Obama. He envisioned a Democratic coalition and a policy agenda that were ahead ...

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and ...

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

His success in the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries ushered in a new era in Democratic Party politics.

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 ...

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

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, America’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday.

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 ...

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 ...