Rev. Jesse Jackson, a pivotal civil rights leader who fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and ran for president, has ...

OBITUARY: The Reverend Jesse Jackson, a towering figure in the American civil rights movement, has passed away at the age of ...

Jesse Jackson was never just a politician. He was a presence.

Two suspects were arrested near the Fulton County Courthouse Friday night following a shooting that injured a 17-year-old on ...

In a decades-long effort, Jesse Jackson stood alongside MLK, pushed for voting rights, shamed corporations and negotiated ...

Jackson was touted as “King’s successor” after the civil rights icon was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where the two had just reconciled.

Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and protégé of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., died at home surrounded by family. Hearts ...

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and ...

• The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died at age 84. His son, Jesse Jackson Jr., told CNN that ...

Police said responding officers found a 17-year-old with a gunshot wound to his thigh.

A man was shot and killed Saturday afternoon on MLK Drive SW in Atlanta. One person has been detained by police.

In 1968, Jackson witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., while standing with him on the balcony of the ...