Follow latest updates as public figures praise civil rights leader who was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for Democratic presidential nomination ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, America’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr ...

He died peacefully on Tuesday morning surrounded by his family, they say in a statement.

After Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in 1968, Jesse Jackson became one of the most successful Black politicians of his generation. Two decades after Jackson’s second presidential bid, Barack ...

In states including South Carolina, where Mr. Jackson was born, and Illinois, officials also ordered flags to be flown at half-staff.

• The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died at age 84. His son, Jesse Jackson Jr., told CNN that ...

Authorities confirmed an arrest in a shooting that left two people dead on the campus of South Carolina State University. Members of the South Carolina Black Legislative Caucus marked HBCU Day at the ...

The U.S. president paid tribute on Truth Social to the late civil rights leader.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter Bernice King shared a photo on social media of Jackson and King and wrote, "Both ancestors now..." ...

A flood of tributes poured in for Rev. Jesse Jackson after his family announced the death of the civil rights icon on Tuesday ...