In her biography “A Dream Deferred,” CNN anchor Abby Phillip explores Jesse Jackson’s career and legacy.

As Democrats prepare to celebrate the first Black woman at the top of the presidential ticket this week in Chicago, progressive leaders on Sunday reflected on the monumental legacy of the Rev. Jesse ...

Through five decades, Jesse Jackson has been trying to realize the promise of his own potential he first embraced as a boy in segregated Greenville, South Carolina. His life has been a headlong rush ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced Saturday that he is stepping down from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition after 52 years at the helm. Jackson, 81, announced his resignation as president during the ...

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CHICAGO -- Rev. Jesse Jackson was released from the hospital Tuesday after he fell at a protest at Howard University earlier this week, a spokesperson said. Jackson had been in Washington D.C. to ...

The iconic civil rights leader who ran for president in 1984 and 1988 will visit with Pennsylvania’s Capitol on Monday. The Rev. Jesse Jackson is scheduled to meet with the Pennsylvania Legislative ...

A Texas pastor and “longtime student” of the Rev. Jesse Jackson will succeed the 81-year-old civil rights leader as head of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the national organization that has long extended ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Rainbow PUSH Coalition is looking ahead, after its Dallas-based president and CEO retired after less than three months on the job. The Rev. Frederick Haynes announced Tuesday that he ...

CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson sat in a wheelchair near the back wall of a darkened restaurant at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. It was late Thursday morning, the final day of the Democratic National ...