After Jesse Jackson’s death last week, former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis put out a brief statement through his son on Facebook. “I was sorry to hear this,” Dukakis said. “Jesse inspired a lot ...

It was a different time for America, a different time for journalism. I was a writer with Life magazine covering the 1988 ...

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. was honored Monday in the state where he grew up under segregation with a hero’s ...

Atlanta has not hosted the Democratic National Convention since 1988.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered flags around the state to be lowered to half-staff on Friday to honor civil rights icon Jesse ...

After a long career of fighting for civil rights, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is visiting his home for one last time to lie in state at the South Carolina Capitol on Monday.

Whether it was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s gut-wrenching assassination in 1968, Barack Obama’s initial address as ...

Word of the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson’s death last week transported me back to the summer of 1987, when I was the editor ...

The Democratic National Committee announced Monday that Atlanta is one of five U.S. cities in the running to host the party's 2028 national convention.

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OPINION: Jesse Jackson could bring an audience to cheers or to tears with the power of his personality remembers columnist Cal Thomas.

Jackson was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. before carving out his own place in the African-American struggle ...