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 ...

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 ...