In 2013, Jesse Jackson Jr pled guilty to misusing campaign funds and was sentenced to prison time; he was released in 2015 and is now seeking a presidential pardon after struggling to rebuild his life ...

Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. called for more presidential pardons, including for himself and the 77 million people ...

After former President Donald Trump pardoned ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is making ...

And, it was clear that many of the people there -- it was not that they were opposed to the idea of a Black running for President, but for several of them, they did not want Jesse Jackson to be ...

The West Philly native, who died in 2021, established the United Bank of Philadelphia and served as the treasurer for Jesse ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, on the stage at the Democratic ... Jackson, 82 years old, made a strong run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984, a first for a Black American.

Jesse Jackson Jr. and Rahm Emanuel are two peas ... s first Black speaker of the U.S. House or even its first Black president. (Others beat him to that punch.) Instead, he took a life-changing ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the nation’s most recognized civil rights leaders, is founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a civil rights organization in Chicago. He was a ...

Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter and Lauryn Hill. “The President’s Award honors an ...

CHICAGO — A day after former Governor Rod Blagojevich received a presidential pardon, former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is calling for millions more. Jackson Jr. addressed the public Tuesday ...