Jackson's call to move the 1993 Super Bowl over the lack of an MLK Day holiday showed that racism has a cost. It also ...

Civil rights icon Reverend Dr. Jesse Jackson has passed away, leaving a legacy of commitment to equality and justice.

Jesse Jackson, one of the most influential civil rights leaders of the past half-century, died Tuesday morning, February 17, ...

Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign and his Greenville roots profoundly shaped American politics. His legacy, however, faces new challenges.

With the exception of a brief rift in 2008, the two publicly maintained mutual respect. A family representative told Snopes ...

With Rev. Jesse Jackson’s passing, his legacy remains impactful in countless ways. His death, during Black History Month, ...

I interacted with him, on and off, for 30 years. He was brilliant, at times electrifying, and at times confounding.

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

A celebration of life will be held next week for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 84.

The American civil rights icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson, died on Feb. 17 at the age of 84. His advisor, James Zogby, a pollster and co-founder of the Arab American Institute, traveled with Jackson ...

The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past 60 years, he ...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...