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

In the face of Reagan’s right-wing presidency, he offered a vision, strategy, and agenda that would have led Democrats and the country in a very different direction.
I once thought pinned adornments were the domain of the ladies, but lately, brooches have been breaking out all over, on men.
Progressives are backing a Nazi-tattooed amateur over Gov. Janet Mills, a feminist who expanded Medicaid and made community college free.
If Donald Trump seeks a third term, former President Barack Obama could mount a comeback to save our democracy.
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 ...
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., a civil rights leader and political outsider, ran for president in two groundbreaking campaigns that changed American politics. A son of the segregated South who went from ...
The image speaks less about our proclivities toward punishment than about the struggle for political rights. Jackson wasn’t ...
Ken Sutton remembers marching with Jesse Jackson as a teenager, speaking out against supermarket redlining in Chicago.