On the comedy program, Jackson paid tribute to famed author Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel, who had recently passed ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president in the 1980s and led the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in Chicago for decades.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the two-time presidential candidate and activist who was the dominant figure in Black politics from the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. until the emergence of ...

Local leaders are remembering the Rev. Jesse Jackson Tuesday after the civil rights giant and a two-time presidential ...

No. 17 Mississippi beats No. 21 Tennessee 94-81 as Cotie McMahon scores a career-high 39 and passes 2,000 career points.

For eight years, President Barack Obama’s aides marveled that no amount of mockery, dismissal or scandal could make Donald Trump go away. Their bewilderment is threaded through hundreds of ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, has died at 84. Mississippi leaders share their ...

A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson was an American political icon. But above all, he was a Southerner.

According to AP, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential ...

Those paying tribute to the late civil rights leader include LA Mayor Karen Bass, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and civil rights activists Najee Ali and Earl Ofari Hutchinson.

- The NAACP won its landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas before the Supreme Court, striking down segregated schools which was argued successfully by Thurgood Marshall, who would ...