The former president took to social media on Tuesday to thank the civil rights leader for both personal and professional reasons.

In 1984, the Democratic Party ceded the playing field to the Republican far right when it shut out Jesse Jackson’s message of economic and social justice and peace with our neighbors in favor of its n...

At the Democratic National Convention in 1984 during his first run for president, he said: “America is not like a blanket—one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. ...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend.