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

Jackson was hospitalized on Nov. 12 following a lengthy battle with the neuromuscular disease progressive supranuclear palsy, a condition similar to Parkinson's disease.

Jackson was hospitalized in November after being diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a life-threatening neurological disorder similar to Parkinson’s disease.

The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died, a Rainbow Push Coalition spokesperson confirmed ...

Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson died Tuesday morning. He was 84. Jackson, a former presidential candidate, died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones, his family said in a Facebook ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights crusader who died on Tuesday, was born Jesse Louis Burns on Oct. 8, 1941, in ...