But in late April 2002, McNeil, still serving as Ward 2 alderman, was together with Jackson in what McNeil described as a "contentious" meeting with city of Springfield leaders, including then-Mayor ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, has spent the last 60 years of his ...

Jesse Jackson was a tireless activist, skilled diplomat and influential politician who made two transformative presidential ...

Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, who fought alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and ran for president, has died at 84. Explore ...

In August 1991, Jesse Jackson arrived in Connecticut looking to "rebuild America," ...

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 ...

Political experts said Jackson's 1988 presidential run paved the way for the election of New York’s first Black mayor the following year.

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the Chicago-based Baptist minister, political figure and two-time presidential candidate, has died.

Jesse Jackson, a Greenville native, was a tireless activist, skilled diplomat and influential politician who made two transformative presidential runs in the 1980s.

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and Pastor of Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland honor Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Robert Duvall was a 'marvelous actor' whose performance 'raised everybody else,' 'Broken Trail' director Walter Hill remembers ...

One of the US’s most prominent civil rights leaders who was a protege of Martin Luther King and a presidential hopeful ...