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The late Rev. Jesse Jackson might best be remembered as a longtime civil rights leader, but he also played a pivotal role in presidential politics.

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It was an evening in April 2011, and Barack Obama had just given the order to go ahead with the commando raid to kill Osama bin Laden when he took to a podium in a Washington hotel and grinned at ...

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Two analyses about the late Jesse Jackson make the case that his presidential runs in 1984 and 1988 paved the way for Barack Obama to become the nation's first Black president in 2008. The reasons are ...

Disenchanted voters are fleeing the Democratic and Republican parties in droves. Their exodus is perpetuating the ...

I was in Australia when Jesse Jackson won the Michigan Democratic Primary in 1988. It reverberated even there.

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

As a student in North Carolina A&T, Jackson gradually became involved with the civil rights movement. In 1960, he was ...