Chicago will host public observances for civil rights icon and Greenville native Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died at 84.

How Jesse Jackson and Joel Ferguson's bold strategy powered a historic Michigan win—true mastery, heart and grassroots politics revealed.

CHICAGO — Details for a celebration of life for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson were announced Wednesday, with multiple events ...

Wider spread: FirstEnergy customers will pay nearly $40 million less annually over the next few years, as state utility ...

President Trump called Rev. Jesse Jackson “a force of nature” and so he was. Jackson, who died Tuesday at 84, was the last ...

Acting Governor Tregenza Roach has directed that all Virgin Islands flags at Government House and on public buildings throughout the territory be flown at half-staff beginning Thursday, February 19 ...

In 2000, I got to spend some intense hours with Jesse Jackson, when he and his son Jesse Jackson Jr., then in Congress, collaborated with me on a book about capital punishment. Commitments across the ...

In 1988, the power brokers of the Democratic Party watched a Chicago civil rights leader, a maverick with a movement he called a "Rainbow Coalition," start to threaten the presidential candidacy of ...

The late Jesse Jackson twice sought the Democratic nomination for president – and though he fell short in 1984 and 1988, his insurgent campaigns reshaped American politics and laid the groundwork for ...

More than any other individual, Jackson embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement—its conversion from a mass working class movement against racial oppression into an “interest group” in ...

More than 60 years ago, eight young Black students were arrested for protesting segregation during a sit-in at Greenville’s main public library. The group became known as “The Greenville Eight,” and ...