Jesse Jackson criticized Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday over his reaction to the arrest of six black juveniles in Jena, Louisiana, on murder charges, accusing the Illinois ...

In the studios of Fox News, Rev. Jesse Jackson did not know the microphone was on, but was recorded saying to another guest, "Barack's been talking down to black people." Then he added a crude remark ...

A law enforcement official connected to the investigation into Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich confirmed Wednesday that the person referred to in the criminal complaint against the governor as "Senate ...

In the face of Reagan’s right-wing presidency, he offered a vision, strategy, and agenda that would have led Democrats and ...

The image speaks less about our proclivities toward punishment than about the struggle for political rights. Jackson wasn’t feared because he broke the rules — he was feared because he wanted to ...

Abby Phillip’s goal in writing the Jackson book “was to make sure that this chapter didn’t get lost to history.” ...

Reverend Jesse Jackson is an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and a protege of Martin Luther King Jr. But he was also a politician whose groundbreaking campaigns in the 1980s would eventually pave ...

Barack Obama is the first African American to secure the nomination of a major political party. Black leaders and public intellectuals--who never thought that would happen—are struggling over how to ...