The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president in the 1980s and led the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in Chicago for decades.

The civil rights activist had been battling PSP, a rare neurodegenerative condition, for over a decade before his death.

The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died, a Rainbow Push Coalition spokesperson confirmed ...

The civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson died on Tuesday morning at the age of 84, his family announced.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister and civil rights leader who twice sought to be the Democratic Party's nominee for U.S. president, died Tuesday, his family announced.

President Donald Trump reacted to the death of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson by posting a message online that mixed praise for Jackson with criticism of Democrats and former President Barack ...

On October 8th, 1941, Jesse Jackson was born into a world where he could not walk into the same buildings as his white neighbors or check out a book at the local library. He could not go to school ...

Tributes are pouring in for Jackson, a protégé of MLK, former presidential candidate and central figure in the Democratic Party for more than six decades.

Following the civil rights icon’s death, the streaming premiere of an archival FRONTLINE documentary, 'Running with Jesse,' is bringing a key part of his legacy into focus.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, died at 84. Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and mentor of the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Jackson, founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and a leader in Chicago since the '60s, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 84.