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

Chicago, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C., will host public observances for civil rights icon and Greenville native the Rev. Jesse Jackson ...

Memorial services honoring the life of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will be expanded beyond Chicago with events in ...

"I am --" "I am..." "Somebody --" "Somebody." The Reverend Jesse Jackson died early Tuesday morning. His passing means that ...

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

In 1988, the power brokers of the Democratic Party watched a Chicago civil rights leader, a maverick with a movement he called a "Rainbow Coalition," start to threaten the presidential candidacy of ...

The late Jesse Jackson twice sought the Democratic nomination for president – and though he fell short in 1984 and 1988, his ...

Many of those gathered at The Gathering Spot on Tuesday for the Black History Month program "When HIStory Was Watching: A ...

As a movement builder, spokesperson, and candidate for the presidency, Jesse Jackson’s accomplishments were massive. He was one of the towering figures of American progressive politics in his era — or ...

What to know about Rev. Jesse Jackson, a central figure in the Civil Rights Movement and national politics for more than six decades.

Jackson's family on Feb. 18 revealed preliminary funeral plans for the longtime activist who died at 84 following a lengthy illness with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare disease that causes a ...

Danielle Wiggins, a historian at Georgetown University, says Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 campaigns used rhetoric, tactics, and policy that would greatly benefit Democrats today.