When Martin Luther King Jr. served as the pastor of an Alabama church during the latter half of the 1950s, he would get food ...

In the early morning of Tuesday, February 17th, Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., completed his assignment on earth, and surrounded by loving family members, took his last breath. He had a lifetime ...

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

Norman C. Francis, who began his 47-year tenure as president of Xavier University of Louisiana on the day Rev. Martin Luther ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, who recently died, did not just speak about justice; he took action and led by example to transform the ...

Jesse Jackson's children remembered his civil rights legacy, and it was announced that memorial services are set for next ...

Jackson's family on Feb. 18 revealed preliminary funeral plans for the longtime activist who died at 84 following a lengthy ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson died at age 84, his family announced Tuesday. A statement from his ...

The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died ...

Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin ...