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

If “Purpose” is primarily a merciless dissection of hypocrisy in an important religious-political Black American family — the Jesse Jackson dynasty comes to mind — it is also a grudging ...

Jesse Jackson’s two presidential runs fundamentally ... racially conservative white voters out of the Democratic Party. Today, some political thinkers question whether a distinct “Southern ...

Jackson’s political rise coincided with and likely encouraged the exodus of racially conservative white voters out of the Democratic Party. The life and career of Jesse Jackson reflect that ...