A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political ...

The older son, named for his father, is the more obviously wayward. Raised to uphold Solomon’s political legacy, Junior ...

Broadway’s “Purpose,” by Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, tackles the legacy of the civil rights movement ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to commemorate the 60th ...

The Jaspers share striking similarities with the family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose son Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2013 for personal misuse of campaign funds as ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.