Democrats are gearing up for a bruising presidential primary as they argue over how to rebuild a winning coalition. The debate sharpens after the recent death of Rev.

A Rochester man was sentenced Friday to 16 years to life for a violent shooting that left a young man fighting for his life ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's decades of activism included a record of profound eloquence. The civil rights icon, who died on Feb. 17 at 84, delivered numerous powerful speeches and memorable quotes ...

In 1988, as the Reverend Jesse Jackson was making his second presidential bid, I left the campaign trail, where I was covering the eventual Democratic nominee, Michael Dukakis, to make a personal ...

During his groundbreaking presidential bid in 1984, the Rev. Jesse Jackson kissed babies in San Jose, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and marched with 100 residents of an ...

Santita Jackson, the daughter of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, on Tuesday remembered her father as a courageous man who would “put his life on the line” for the causes he fought for and believed in.

Vice President JD Vance, former Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama were among the prominent political figures who issued statements following the death of Rev. Jesse ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and two-time presidential candidate, died Feb. 17 at the age of 84. Leadership within historically Black faith institutions honor Jackson's ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, helped push for widespread usage of the term “African American” as a way to reclaim cultural identity. The protege of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther ...

I am who I am today in part because of a speech I heard in fifth grade at Matthew A. Henson Elementary School in Baltimore. It was 1970, and the auditorium was full of little Black boys and girls, ...

Our first encounter with Jesse Jackson was at a corporate annual meeting in Chicago in the early 1980s. He rose to make what was already his signature pitch for companies to contribute to his ...

The president wrote a lengthy homage to the late civil rights leader, 'despite the fact that I am falsely and consistently called a racist by the scoundrels and lunatics on the radical left' Taylor ...