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.

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 ...

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

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

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate who died Feb. 17, advocated for years for causes in Arizona.

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

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

Tributes are pouring in from Chicago residents and Illinois leaders remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson after his death at the age ...

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 ...

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