This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a powerful voice not only “for Black economic justice and racial ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. to lie in honor at the United States Capitol, citing past precedent over how the deaths of other high-profile ...

This story is a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Peggy Shepard walked into her living room on Tuesday morning when her husband told ...

When new Ravens offensive coordinator Declan Doyle emphasized the importance of offseason workouts, he didn’t single out any one player. He didn’t need to. Doyle undoubtedly was talking about, and to, ...

CHICAGO − Mourners are set to gather to remember the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the late civil rights icon and a native of Greenville, South Carolina. The towering civil rights icon battled alongside Martin ...

Jackson's presidential runs were intended to inspire other minorities to seek elected office. Savannah leaders, including Mayor Van Johnson, credit Jackson as a trailblazer who gave them hope. Jackson ...

In 1988, as the Reverend Jesse Jackson was making his second presidential bid, I left the campaign trail, where I was covering the eventual Democratic nominee, Michael Dukakis, to make a personal ...

A father, a friend, a servant, a leader — in his faith, in civil rights, in politics and beyond. These are just a few descriptions offered by people who knew the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, who passed on ...

This story was updated to correct an inaccuracy. Police have arrested one suspect and are searching for several others after a Thursday, Feb. 12, shooting at an apartment complex in North Jackson left ...

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Washington — President Trump on Tuesday extended sympathies to the family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson following his death at 84 and called the civil rights leader a "force of nature like few others ...

I am who I am today in part because of a speech I heard in fifth grade at Matthew A. Henson Elementary School in Baltimore. It was 1970, and the auditorium was full of little Black boys and girls, ...