As a student in North Carolina A&T, Jackson gradually became involved with the civil rights movement. In 1960, he was ...

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.

While former President Barack Obama’s legacy in the White House is set in stone, President Donald Trump still has just under ...

Jackson once explained the purpose behind his activism with characteristic clarity, saying, “We have to build a movement that ...

When the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for ...

The US president remembered Jackson, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s, as a good man with "lots of personality, grit and street smarts".

Two analyses about the late Jesse Jackson make the case that his presidential runs in 1984 and 1988 paved the way for Barack Obama to become the nation's first Black president in 2008. The reasons are ...

The legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign continues to inspire new generations of activists, leaders, and ...

Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King and became a leader of the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King ...

After his very close 2022 U.S. Senate defeat, the former Wisconsin lieutenant governor returned to his roots of organizing, ...

Obama aides have described how they underestimated Donald Trump before his 2016 presidential run, even as his influence grew online and in politics.

Jesse Louis Jackson — 41-year-old son of the South, child of civil rights and a prospective 1984 black presidential candidate — is a man driven, almost obsessed with his self-appointed mission.