Both men sought the presidency. They came from different backgrounds, held different goals, and had radically different ...

Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for the country to ...

Jackson backed up rural imagery with an "economic populism grounded in the struggles facing everyday Americans," writes Cory Haala.

Back in the late 1980s, three University of Iowa professors believed they could predict polling data better than the ...

His success in the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries ushered in a new era in Democratic Party politics.

Jackson was born in Greenville, South Carolina, on Oct. 8, 1941, and attended racially segregated Sterling High School.

Punish Me, a new play by Michael Dukakis, will have its world premiere at the Hudson Backstage Theatre in Hollywood January 28–February 25. Directed by Monique Sorgen, the cast of this new ...

The late Rev. Jesse Jackson might best be remembered as a longtime civil rights leader, but he also played a pivotal role in ...

Famed civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson has died. Jackson, 84, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and later ...

In today's editorial offering, we explore the rough-and-tough, bloody, disorderly world of newspaper comics. Or at least it was bloody when "Bloom County" was still featured and "Doonesbury" was still ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson had a long relationship with Detroit and Michigan, which its politicians and faith leaders remembered ...