With the exception of a brief rift in 2008, the two publicly maintained mutual respect. A family representative told Snopes the rumor was false.

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Jesse Jackson is typically associated with Chicago, but he grew up in the South, born and raised in Greenville, South ...

Al Letson revisits a story about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that he produced 16 years ago for Black History Month.

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

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, died at the age of 84 after a long illness, leaving behind a legacy of activism, faith, and political organizing that ...

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.

Bishop James E. Dixon II, pastor of Community of Faith Church, shared a photo of Jackson seated and smiling alongside Dixon and Rev. Bill Lawson the longtime Houston civil rights leader and founder of ...

I think the Lord has kept me around to be a witness to all of this,” Love said adding that he hopes no one forgets the groundwork Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr. laid for the community to succeed.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's passing at 84 prompted reflection on his profound civil rights legacy, even here in West Michigan.

Political leaders across Illinois mourned Rev. Jesse Jackson’s death and nodded to the decades-long movement he championed after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his mentor.

"Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the ...