"Our father was a servant leader - not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world," his family said in a statement ...
An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force who formed a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people. His mission, he said, was “to transform the mind of America.” ...
As a civil rights activist, he joined the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, and Memphis. He later launched two ...
An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force who formed a "rainbow coalition" of poor and working-class people. His mission, he said, was "to transform the mind of America" ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson entered the national spotlight during the civil rights movement and ran for president twice. He also ...
Ordained minister and activist who twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination had been living with progressive supranuclear palsy ...
Celebrated civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson died early Tuesday, his family said in a statement, after battling the ...