Clint Eastwood called President Obama the "greatest hoax" and not "fraud" in an interview after his infamous 2012 RNC speech.

Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights activist, left behind a legacy of Black empowerment that helped transform Black political representation in the United States, paving the way for future leaders ...

During a visit to Zimbabwe in 1989, Jesse Jackson was walking down the dirt trail leading to Victoria Falls when a group of three African men hunkered in the shade of a scrubby tree stood up to point ...

The late Jesse Jackson twice sought the Democratic nomination for president – and though he fell short in 1984 and 1988, his insurgent campaigns reshaped American politics and laid the groundwork for ...

Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg may have found a new fan in Barack Obama. The former US President showered praise on the young basketball player during the NBA All-Star Weekend. He expressed ...

When the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for the country to realize its highest ideals.

A new AP-NORC poll finds views of the Democratic Party among rank-and-file Democrats have not bounced back since President ...

A protege of Martin Luther King Jr, Jackson built a career around working to politically organise and improve the lives of African-Americans, and became a national force during his two White House ...

UChicago scholars contribute interviews of those who knew Barack and Michelle Obama during their time in Chicago ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years ...

Many people who knew and worked with the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. are vowing to ‘keep hope alive’ in honor of his legacy. Jackson, who led the U.S. Civil Rights Movement for decades, died Tuesday.

July 17, 1960 - Jackson begins his civil rights activism when he and seven others enter the “whites only” public library in Greenville County, South Carolina. They are subsequently arrested and jailed ...