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You wanna be startin’ somethin’ early? Lionsgate said today that its Michael Jackson biopic Michael will have limited early-access screenings in premium formats on Wednesday, April 22, ahead of its ...

Jesse Jackson Jr. took a not-so-subtle swipe at three former Democratic presidents who spoke at his father’s memorial service — Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden — saying they did not know the ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson's children gave loving, personal, and often emotional eulogies Saturday at his private homegoing services at the Chicago headquarters of Rainbow PUSH, the social justice ...

The bell marking the start of a new NFL year tolls, and with it arrives a pivotal moment in Baltimore. Monday signals the effective beginning of free agency, with the legal tampering period — when ...

Jesse Jackson held many titles. Reverend. Civil Rights leader. Democratic presidential candidate. Washington, DC's shadow senator in Congress. Jackson, who died Feb. 17 after a long illness, was also ...

Update: The Jackson family said Thursday afternoon memorial and funeral plans for Rev. Jesse Jackson's celebration of life are being rescheduled. New information about a celebration of life and ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon. A presidential candidate. A global leader. But for the people living on tree-lined South Constance Avenue in South Shore’s Jackson Park Highlands, ...

In May 2000, a few months before I left my native southeastern Kentucky to attend college in Washington, D.C., the Rev. Jesse Jackson came to a nearby town. The civil rights leader and two-time ...

When the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for the country to realize its highest ideals. “If I can become president,” ...

Born in the throes of Jim Crow, the Rev. Jesse Jackson “quickly became maladjusted to injustice. On the field of his life, his shoes were well-worn. His uniform, dirty with the stripes of imperfection ...