“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson intoned in 1984 during his address at the Democratic National Convention in ...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

Clothes identified Mr. Jackson as in between. He was part of a transition. His clothing choices were exclamation points to his preacherly oratory. They were an emphatic expression of identity in ...

Long after he twice ran for president, Jackson repeatedly engaged with Portland communities during pivotal moments.

President Donald Trump offered his condolences to the family of Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died on Feb. 17. The two men ...

“Jesse Jackson is one of the very most significant political leaders in this country in the last 100 years,” declared Senator Bernie Sanders, summarizing the importance of Jackson’s remarkable life ...

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

Jesse Jackson's death on Tuesday at age 84 has Jonathan Wolfe revisiting a speech that "is regarded as one of the most ...

The Reverend Jesse Jackson passed away this week at the age of eighty-four years old. A national figure and leader in civil rights, international diplomacy, and the Democratic Party, he occupied a ...

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

The civil rights icon, preacher, and political trailblazer spent more than six decades turning faith into action, leaving behind a legacy that reshaped American politics and kept hope alive.

Bhattacharya will be the third leader of the embattled CDC, the nation’s top public health agency, during President Donald Trump’s second term. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired ...