Following the civil rights icon’s death, the streaming premiere of an archival FRONTLINE documentary, 'Running with Jesse,' is bringing a key part of his legacy into focus.

Our father was a servant leader—not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked." ...

President Trump on Tuesday extended sympathies to the family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson following his death at 84 and called ...

Across more than six decades of activism and two presidential runs, Jesse Jackson centered economic justice for America’s multiracial class in ways that are still relevant today.

Few figures shaped late 20th-century American politics, like Jesse Jackson.

The nation’s long farewell to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson mirrors his six decades of service to our country and the world.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As the Rev. Jesse Jackson was memorialized across the country following his death last month, Staten Island Black leaders reflected on how his charisma, courage and conviction ...

Look back at the late Rev. Jesse Jackson's most memorable quotes, from Democratic National Convention speeches and more.

The late Rev. Jesse Jackson’s most famous speech was the “Keep Hope Alive” address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention (DNC). But perhaps his most important speech happened four years earlier ...

Jackson was a key figure during the US civil rights movement of the 1960s, and was known for being the first African-American to make the jump from activism to major-party presidential politics.

Obituary / The civil-rights activist and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition changed what’s possible in politics. John Nichols The Rev. Jesse Jackson never stopped campaigning. Even in the last ...

They sent the Rev. Jesse Jackson home Saturday the only way it could have been done: with Gospel music, testimony that often ...