Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns inspired a generation and expanded the country's political imagination. The author credits Jackson's work with paving the way for Barack Obama's ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – A great orator, a savvy self-promoter and a civil rights leader with endless energy are just some of the impressions from three senior Chicago journalists who spent decades covering ...

There is little marking Jackson’s ties to Greenville, SC, and its larger civil rights history today, but leaders and elders in the rapidly gentrifying community are making plans to honor their most ...