President Trump also remembers Jackson as a "force of nature" with "lots of personality, grit and street smarts".

Barack Obama, long targeted by religious conspiracy theories, has struck a very different note when speaking about Pope Leo XIV - an American-born pontiff he describes as 'cut from that cloth' of ...

Both men sought the presidency. They came from different backgrounds, held different goals, and had radically different ...

One of the US’s most prominent civil rights leaders who was a protege of Martin Luther King and a presidential hopeful ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, America’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr ...

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

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

Jackson boldly ran for president twice in the 1980s, laying the psychological and political groundwork for a more conventional Black Chicagoan, Barack Obama, to seize the office two decades later.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, in his own post, called Jackson “a change maker, a boundary breaker, and a passionate and ...

Those who migrated north did so in search of opportunities in manufacturing, entertainment, academia, and also liberation.

Reverend Jesse L. Jackson died Tuesday at age 84. Actor Samuel L. Jackson remembered him as a "profound leader and champion of justice." ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who rose from the front lines of the civil rights movement to become one of America’s most prominent advocates for justice, equality and political change, has died. He was ...