2 days ago · Jesse Jackson, a civil rights activist and clergyman, has died.

2 days ago · Jesse Jackson, a prominent figure of the U.S. civil rights movement and protégé of Martin Luther King Jr., has died at 84, his family confirmed in a statement Tuesday. “Our father was a ...

3 days ago · The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights icon who battled alongside Martin Luther King Jr., negotiated global hostage releases, and shamed corporations for their lack of corporate...

3 days ago · The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a lifelong civil rights advocate until his death Tuesday at the age of 84.

2 days ago · Eulogies are pouring in after the death of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. The protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement …

2 days ago · Rev. Jesse Jackson, a renowned civil rights activist and two-time US presidential candidate who pushed for a multiracial movement united around the common fight for economic …

3 days ago · The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and populist vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made him the nation’s most influential Black figure in the years ...

3 days ago · ‘I don’t think Jesse Jackson saw his political life as something different from his call from God as a preacher,’ said the Rev. Valerie Bridgeman.

Jesse is important in Judaism because he was the father of the most famous King of Israel. He is important in Christianity, in part because he is in the Old Testament and mentioned in the genealogy …

1 day ago · Black leaders throughout the country paid tribute to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson and his mantra to “keep hope alive” in the hours following the civil rights leader’s death. The two-time …