The funeral for civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson was held in Chicago on Friday afternoon. Jackson, 84, died last month after battling the neurodegenerative disorder progressive supranuclear palsy, his family said in a statement. The political ...

Jesse Jackson Jr. took a not-so-subtle swipe at three former Democratic presidents who spoke at his father's memorial service — Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden — saying they did not know the real Jesse Jackson. "Yesterday I listened for ...

President Trump didn’t attend the star-studded memorial service for the Rev. Jesse Jackson but he was at the top of mind for many of its speakers. “Let me just say I predicted a lot about what’s happening right now,” Harris bragged as the crowd ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — The late Rev. Jesse Jackson’s most famous speech was the “Keep Hope Alive” address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention (DNC). But perhaps his most important speech happened four years earlier at the 1984 DNC. It’s the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Days before his memorial at the South Carolina state capitol on March 2, descendants of Nicholtown neighborhood royalty are still searching for an appropriate way to grieve the death of ...

Thousands turned out on Thursday to honor the late Rev. Jesse Jackson as his casket lay in repose at Rainbow PUSH Headquarters, in the first of a series of memorial services over the next several days. A procession Thursday morning brought Jackson's casket ...

The day Jesse Jackson Jr. was sworn into Congress in 1995, he asked a reporter to sum up where politicians go wrong. The answer, he recently recalled: “hubris.” More than a decade after finishing his 17-month stint in federal prison for a campaign ...