Reverend Jesse Jackson's  influence and legacy has spread far and wide but his roots are in the Carolinas. He was born in ...

Jesse Jackson’s upbringing in SC shaped his mission for justice and propelled him to work for causes in his home state ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, has spent the last 60 years of his ...

The young man is the civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. The stoop is on the set of “Sesame Street,” in 1972. The ...

His success in the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries ushered in a new era in Democratic Party politics.

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson had a long relationship with Detroit and Michigan, which its politicians and faith leaders remembered ...

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

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the Chicago-based Baptist minister, political figure and two-time presidential candidate, has died.

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 ...

On “The Final 5,” Jim Lokay spoke with Dr. James Peterson about the death of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson and the legacy he leaves behind. Peterson said Jackson’s lasting impact was his ...

• The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died at age 84. His son, Jesse Jackson Jr., told CNN that ...