Officials with the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition announced funeral arrangements for the Chicago-based civil rights icon and presidential candidate beginning next Wednesday.

We were never alone,” his daughter Santita Jackson said. The community surrounded the young leader in every way, helping the young leader and his family thrive.

U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson reminded people that his father was a long-distance runner in the fight for freedom and dignity. He thanked him for being “a champion runner for justice,” and added that the ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who witnessed Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memphis and maintained decades‑long ties to the city’s activism, has died. Here's what to know.

For two years, Jackson, Mississippi, was my home. It was the first place I lived after college, when I worked as an education fellow at the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute for Southern Jewish Life. The ...

The Jackson County Library Services board of directors voted to place Director Kari May on paid administrative leave for about two weeks, following incidents at the Talent branch. In December, a ...

Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris Jackson, is ending 2025 and starting 2026 on a high note: one where she’s au naturel, no filter and no BS! In case you missed it, earlier this week, Jackson shared a ...

Earlier this month, a library employee said he saw a patron at the Talent branch watching videos he called child pornography. Employee Glenn Kaphammer said the videos being viewed included children in ...

After scary health concerns and false claims of being on life support, there are finally some positive health updates about civil rights icon and Martin Luther King Jr. protégé Reverend Jesse ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s family insisted Sunday that the civil-rights icon is in stable condition and “not on life support” in the wake of “inaccurate media reports’’ about his health. Jackson, 84, ...

As she oversaw President Donald Trump’s emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, case this past week, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson once again proved she isn’t beholden to Supreme ...

His family is "grateful for all the well-wishes and prayers." The civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has been released from the hospital, his family said in a statement on Monday. This comes after ...