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 ...

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

"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 ...

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

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. The post Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson dies at 84 ...

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 ...

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

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

Butler’s agent, Bernie Lee, told ESPN the injury was a "gut punch," but he remained optimistic for the 36-year-old. "I firmly believe that this is a part of the journey, and we can’t only expect to ...