The late Helen Burns Jackson was 16 when she gave birth to Jackson on October 8, 1941. The house is in a West End neighborhood minutes away from Fluor Field and the S.C. Governor's School for the ...

With performances, scholarship awards and a speech from Jesse Jackson Jr., the West County Democrats celebrated the life and legacy of Maryland Congressman Parren J. Mitchell.

Jesse Louis Jackson was born Oct. 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina, a town firmly entrenched in the . racially segregated Deep South. This time and place aren’t footnotes to Jackson’s ...

Democrat Don Davis appears to have held off challenger Laurie Buckhout in North Carolina's 1st Congressional District, a seat that could help determine the balance of power in the U.S. House. NC ...

Speaker of the House Joanna McClinton, D-Phila./Delaware, presents the Rev. Jesse Jackson with a gavel like the one she uses at the rostrum in the Pennsylvania House.

Nine Chicago mayors are urging President Joe Biden to pardon former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Nine Chicago mayors came together earlier this month to pen a letter to President Joe Biden requesting a ...

Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. spoke on behalf of his father, who has Parkinson's disease. "It's about women voting. It's about students age 17 who are old enough to vote, participating in ...

The Impact of Hurricane Floyd, 25 Years Later. Special | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. A look back at Hurricane Floyd’s impact on NC on its 25th anniversary. On September 16, 1999 ...

Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. walks to a halfway house in Baltimore on March 26, 2015, after being released from a minimum-security federal prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.

When the Rev. Jesse Jackson ran for president in 1984 and 1988, he was outside looking in. ... The former literally made it easier for Obama to defeat Hillary Clinton for the White House nomination in ...

Jackson became the second Black American to seek a major-party nomination for president after Rep. Shirley Chisholm ran for the White House in 1972, running as a Democrat.