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

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

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

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.” ...

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 ...

Presidents have all kinds of influence, beyond running the country. These U.S. presidents brought their kitchen traditions to ...

The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the most stinging US setbacks of the Cold War era. A longtime ally that the United States depended on as a pillar of regional security, the Shah, gave way to a ...

Jimmy Carter's funeral brought together a who's who of DC's past and present, but one person was conspicuously absent. Here's why Michelle Obama skipped the whole thing. Department of Labor under fire ...