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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. was honored Monday in the state where he grew up under ...

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.

Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and former state senator passed away on Feb. 17, visited SMC in 1988 to inaugurate a sculpture that stands on campus today.

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

President Trump called the Rev. Jesse Jackson “a force of nature,” and so he was. Jackson, who died Feb. 17 at 84, was the last great orator of the civil ...

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 ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered U.S. and Michigan flags across the state to be lowered to half-staff on Thursday, Feb. 26, ...

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Bob Rasmussen recalls many moments from the day he spent with Jesse Jackson on Good Friday, April 1, 1988. Rasmussen fondly ...

Whether it was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s gut-wrenching assassination in 1968, Barack Obama’s initial address as president-elect in November 2008, or any other historic moment relating to ...

Sandi Brewster-walker, of North Amityville, was Jackson's Connecticut primary campaign director for his presidential runs in ...