Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., whose career took him from his early collaboration with Martin Luther King to ...

Civil Rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., whose career took him from his early collaboration with Martin Luther King to creating the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to two runs for the presidency and ...

The U.S. is sending the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Middle East, joining the USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group already positioned in the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) area, as ...

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

As a movement builder, spokesperson, and candidate for the presidency, Jesse Jackson’s accomplishments were massive. He was one of the towering figures of American progressive politics in his era — or ...

Photos of Jesse Jackson in CT weave a tapestry of support for Jackie Robinson and Ned Lamont together with showdowns against ...

Jesse Jackson was always a standout in the way he dressed. But whom he dressed for, and why, are what made him exceptional. By 2008, when he was an elder statesman in the fight for social justice ...

Wednesday brings Day 2 of the closure of the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge. The bridge is closed from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin ...

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.

Civil Rights leader Jesse L. Jackson died at the age of 84, his son announced Tuesday morning. The leader and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH coalition and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr. visited ...

My religion obligates me to be political, but my politics don’t obligate me to be religious,” said Jackson — frequently introduced to audiences as the Country Preacher — at a 1985 news ...