ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s keynote speech at Atlanta’s 1988 Democratic National Convention was a unifying address aimed at bringing together the party after the ...

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force who formed a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people.

Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, who marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and dedicated his life to activism, has died at 84.

Civil rights icon, who died Tuesday, shifted Black politics and leftist coalition-building from the sidecar of the Democratic party to the driver’s seat ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson entered the national spotlight during the civil rights movement and ran for president twice. He also ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights activist and religious leader who advocated for social justice causes around the world, has died at age 84.

Ordained minister and activist who twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination had been living with progressive supranuclear palsy ...

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 ...

Celebrated civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson died early Tuesday, his family said in a statement, after battling the neurodegenerative disorder Progressive Supranuclear Palsy ...

Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in ...

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