One of the US’s most prominent civil rights leaders who was a protege of Martin Luther King and a presidential hopeful ...

"Sunday Morning" looks back on the life of the Baptist minister, civil rights leader and social justice activist, whose trailblazing presidential campaigns, built on a message of economic support and ...

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

From MLK’s office to Obama’s victory, one documentarian shares intimate memories of Jesse Jackson’s fearless push for justice.

In “A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power,” Abby Phillip provides a broad, unflinching overview of Jackson’s trailblazing work as a civil rights activist. A ...

In a decades-long effort, Jesse Jackson stood alongside MLK, pushed for voting rights, shamed corporations and negotiated with world leaders.

Jackson was a Chicago icon for decades, founding the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and engaging in a series of movements to promote ...

‘A Dream Deferred,’ out in October, focuses on the civil rights leader’s 1980s presidential campaigns CNN anchor Abby Phillip will publish a new biography about Rev. Jesse Jackson in fall 2025 A Dream ...

Jesse Jackson's upbringing in SC shaped his mission for justice and propelled him to work for causes in his home state throughout his life.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, America’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the country's most influential leaders, has died at 84. The founder and long-time leader of the Rainbow-Push Coalition ran for president twice and inspired millions.

Jesse Jackson, who was one of the most influential figures in the civil rights struggle and ran for president in 1984, died in Chicago.