A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political icon. But above all, he’s a Southerner.

Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for "crude and hurtful" remarks he made about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama after an interview with a Fox News correspondent. The remarks came ...

A banner from the “Asian Americans for Jesse Jackson” campaign welcomes visitors to “Crescendo,” an ongoing archival exhibition at Asian Arts Initiative. The 1988 presidential campaign banner sets the ...

But the campaign always represented more than ... politics and a power broker in the Democratic Party. Jesse Jackson’s two presidential runs fundamentally altered the U.S. political landscape.