BACK at home for Christmas, a young Jesse Jackson had needed a book for his college studies. But he was banned from using the whites-only library, and vowed to return and read staff the riot act.

He’s survived under a cloud of scandal all 12 years he has served as the state’s attorney general. Ken Paxton is leading the polls in Texas’ Republican primary for US Senate anyway.

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Courtney Carson did not want to go to the Decatur church that November day in 1999 when the Rev. Jesse Jackson came to town for a rally. To do so, he remembered all these years later, was to admit a ...

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president in the 1980s and led the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in Chicago for decades.

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Veteran US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson, one of the nation's most influential Black voices, died peacefully ...

Jackson's legacy is not one of triumph or failure, but of persistent contradiction – a reminder that courage without structural rupture risks absorption into the very hegemony it seeks to overthrow.

In the early morning of Tuesday, February 17th, Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., completed his assignment on earth, and surrounded by loving family members, took his last breath. He had a lifetime ...