The Civil Rights leader recognized hip-hop’s power early on and spent decades holding the genre and its artists accountable for their influence.

I interacted with him, on and off, for 30 years. He was brilliant, at times electrifying, and at times confounding.

In 1996, Jackson’s calls for more diversity in Hollywood were ignored or criticized. Now "Sinners," a movie by a Black director, has garnered 16 Oscar nominations, the most in the award show's history ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, who recently died, did not just speak about justice; he took action and led by example to transform the ...

Much of Jackson’s work, along with others, laid the groundwork for the election of President Barack Obama in 2008. In ...

CHICAGO — Details for a celebration of life for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson were announced Wednesday, with multiple events scheduled in Chicago. Jackson, the civil rights activist who worked with ...

Abby Phillip cornered Shermichael Singleton after he equated being "anti-diversity" with being racist — then admitted Trump is explicitly anti-diversity.

Look back at the late Greenville native Rev. Jesse Jackson's most memorable quotes, from Democratic National Convention speeches and more.

Jesse Jackson was once dogged by antisemitism accusations. Through work with Jewish leaders like Abraham Foxman, he changed.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died this week, ran for president twice, leading more Black voters to register. The year after his second run, a Black mayor, David Dinkins, won in New York.

“Jesse Jackson is one of the very most significant political leaders in this country in the last 100 years,” declared Senator Bernie Sanders, summarizing the importance of Jackson’s remarkable life ...

Bhattacharya will be the third leader of the embattled CDC, the nation’s top public health agency, during President Donald Trump’s second term. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired ...