The Latest Breaking News from Jesse Jackson

U.S. groups will gather for community service projects to honor Martin Luther King Jr., but some say more is needed.

Getting out the Black vote is crucial for Maryland Democratic primary Senate candidate Rep. David Trone.

After a lifetime of activism, a son of Jesse Jackson marks his first year as a politician representing Illinois

“You have to believe that peace is possible,” says the freshman Democrat and Foreign Affairs Committee member, who has called for a cease-fire.

On Thursday, December 7, 2023, U.S. Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL-01) is introducing a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor –cycling's first Black world champion– in recognition of his significance to the nation as an athlete, trailblazer, role model and equal rights advocate.

As they head out on tour and publish a visual memoir, the dance duo answer your questions on their greatest gig, courting Kate Bush and Bob Dylan, and dismaying Björk with slap bass

In the mid-1980s he invited Angela Davis, Winnie Mandela, Jesse Jackson and Ray Charles to talk to communities across the country. Thus began an enormous, ongoing, consciousness-changing event

Alderpersons OK’d a $33 million Homeland Security grant to care for asylum-seekers and also agreed to spend $1.5 million in tax increment financing dollars to buy a 10.7-acre property formerly used by the Marine Corps and convert it into a shelter for up to 550 migrants.

The conservative Stanford Review didn’t change many minds on campus. But its alums have transformed the tech ecosystem.

Minyon Moore got her start in politics in Chicago. She worked in Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign, in the Clinton White House and helped usher Ketanji Brown Jackson through her Supreme Court confirmation.

Jackson has retired, but his longtime fight for voting rights, economic justice and racial equality have left an indelible mark on our nation, Marc Morial writes.