House Speaker Mike Johnson recently denied a request to have civil rights leader Jesse Jackson lie in honor in the US Capitol ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson denied the request, citing past precedent over how the deaths of other high-profile figures were ...

When Brown made his third White House bid in 1992, his relationship with Jackson became an issue. At one point, Brown suggested that Jackson might be his running mate, but it drew condemnation from ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, died ...

People in the metro area are mourning the death of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson. His family says he died at the age of 84. Jackson touched so many lives here in the Atlanta area. He helped ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a civil rights icon and a regular presence in Philadelphia who energized Black voters both locally and nationally for more than five decades, died Tuesday at his home in ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, died at 84. Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and mentor of the Rev. Al Sharpton.

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

Famed civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson has died. Jackson, 84, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and later ...