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36 days ago

Jesse Jackson Jr. criticized Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton for injecting politics into his father's memorial services. He said the former presidents 'do not know Jesse Jackson.'
Mr. T was one of the most unforgettable stars of the 1980s, famous for his towering muscles, trademark mohawk and stacks of chunky gold chains that weighed 40 pounds.

38 days ago

Thousands in Chicago honored civil rights ‘champion’ who ‘stepped forward again and again’, Obama said

At the longtime civil rights activist’s memorial celebration on Friday, the Rev Jesse Jackson was…

Barack Obama launched a ferocious rebuke to Donald Trump at the Rev. Jesse Jackson's funeral in Chicago on Friday.
Barrack Obama sparked a buzz as he gestured to a Democratic presidential hopeful at a star-studded funeral for the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

43 days ago

Jackson’s body lay in repose at his Rainbow/Push Coalition headquarters as thousands visited to pay their respects

Some were older, some were younger and some were strangers, but many more were friend…

50 days ago

From opposing apartheid in South Africa to supporting Palestinian rights, the US civil rights leader left his mark across the globe

When Jesse Jackson called for the Democratic party platform to inclu…

51 days ago

Daniel Knowles, our Midwest correspondent, on why the civil-rights fight feels newly urgent

The civil rights trailblazer imagined a future for America in which the marginalized became the center of US politics

Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil- and human-rights trailblazer who died on 17 Feb…

53 days ago

On Tuesday, we learned that the US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson had died at the age of 84. Tributes flooded in from political figures across the aisle for the Baptist minister who twice ran for …

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