Jesse Jackson

Jackson saw sports as fresh territory to attack the Black labor/white wealth dynamic

Jackson showed generations of Chicago children the promise, perils and work required to keep hope alive

From his football playing days to his relationships with sports’ stars, Jackson recognized the power and vulnerability of the athlete

Jackson had many incarnations over a long career in which he poked the powerful to take action

Dallas pastor Frederick Doughlass Haynes will take over as the group’s president

The Nation of Islam leader is admired for his message of self-reliance, and many look past his record of bigotry

Jesse Jackson reveals Parkinson’s diagnosis

44 African Americans who shook up the world

Sold-out audience heard messages of ’embracing the power in you’