Biden shares personal story about childhood stuttering at Jackson memorial service, telling crowd he's 'smarter than most of ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1984 DNC speech challenged the Democratic Party to embrace the poor and marginalized.

Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition was not a slogan. It was a governing theory. Jackson stitched together Black voters, white ...

“What a great debt we owe to him,” said America’s first Black president, who acknowledged how the civil rights leader ...

Our Back Pages / The candidate may have started as a long-shot contender, but The Nation always took him—and his impact on political history—seriously. Richard Kreitner In the spring of 1983, as the ...

This is an opinion column. It was two decades beyond the seminal protests, marches, attacks and sacrifices that secured ...

Obituary / The civil-rights activist and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition changed what’s possible in politics. John Nichols The Rev. Jesse Jackson never stopped campaigning. Even in the last ...

As a longtime Democratic National Convention staffer, I have two ineradicable memories of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who died yesterday at the age of 84. The first was a famous moment at the 1988 ...

"And the message he sent to a 22-year-old child of a single mother, with a funny name — an outsider — was that maybe there wasn’t any place, any room, where we didn’t belong," Obama said.

President Barack Obama delivered a moving tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson during the civil rights leader's "Homegoing" service on Friday.

By Bianca Flowers CHICAGO, Feb 26 (Chicago) - Memorial events honoring the life and legacy of civil rights leader Jesse ...