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 ...

Former Presidents Biden, Clinton and Vice President Harris also honored Jackson.

"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 ...

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

Obama responded to a call to run for a third term while speaking at the funeral of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.

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

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 ...

Former US Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton joined thousands of mourners at a public memorial service for Jesse Jackson i ...

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

CHICAGO (AP) — As Democrats debate how to rebuild a winning coalition to take back power in Washington, many political ...