CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate ...

Reverend Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, made several trips to Kansas City during his sixty-year career as ...

Across Alabama, a state central to the struggle that shaped his life’s work, reactions from officials to his death have ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at 84, had a profound impact on Florida's civil rights movement and political ...

For 60 years, nine mayors have had no choice but to contend with the famed civil rights activist, and sometimes defer to him even though they often didn’t like it. They could not afford to do ...

Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of ...

Alabama’s two Democratic representatives in Congress are reacting to the death of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at 84.

Jackson attended the Triad HBCU from 1960-1964, transferring from the University of Illinois, shortly after the A&T Four's ...

By Will Dunham Washington, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson had a long relationship with Detroit and Michigan, which its politicians and faith leaders remembered after his death Feb. 17.

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

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, America’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr ...