CHICAGO — Details for a celebration of life for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson were announced Wednesday, with multiple events scheduled in Chicago. Jackson, the civil rights activist who worked with ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the country's most influential leaders, has died at 84. The founder and long-time leader of the Rainbow-Push Coalition ran for president twice and inspired millions.

In 2000, I got to spend some intense hours with Jesse Jackson, when he and his son Jesse Jackson Jr., then in Congress, collaborated with me on a book about capital punishment. Commitments across the ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died this week, ran for president twice, leading more Black voters to register. The year after his second run, a Black mayor, David Dinkins, won in New York.

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.

Jackson's family on Feb. 18 revealed preliminary funeral plans for the longtime activist who died at 84 following a lengthy ...

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 ...

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

I knew him well long before becoming president, and he really was special, with lots of personality, grit and street smarts,” President Donald Trump said during a White House event commemorating Black ...

What to know about Rev. Jesse Jackson, a central figure in the Civil Rights Movement and national politics for more than six decades.

VERSACE DEATH SCENE: Police investigation in front of designer Gianni Versace’s Casa Casuarina mansion on Ocean Drive where the fashion mogul was murdered on the steps of his home on July 15, 1997 by ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president in the 1980s and led the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in Chicago for decades.