“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 ...

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 ...

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

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

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rev Jesse Jackson Sr (@revjjackson) Tributes continue to pour in after the death of Rev. Jesse Jackson, a protégé of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who became ...

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

Jackson didn’t just pave the way for Barack Obama. He envisioned a Democratic coalition and a policy agenda that were ahead ...

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

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 ...

Jackson spent more than six decades turning faith into action, leaving behind a legacy that reshaped American politics and kept hope alive.

“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 ...

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