My friend Jesse Hector, who has died aged 78 after a heart attack, was one of the great unsung heroes of British rock’n’roll. In the early 1970s, he was the charismatic leader of a series of ...

In January, the then-59-year-old civil rights activist and former Democratic presidential candidate publicly admitted that he had had an extramarital affair resulting in the birth of a child. The ...

After his promising career was halted by a corruption scandal that sent him to prison, the former Democratic congressman is trying to return to the House. By Tim Balk Former Representative Jesse L.

The day Jesse Jackson Jr. was sworn into Congress in 1995, he asked a reporter to sum up where politicians go wrong. The answer, he recently recalled: “hubris.” More than a decade after finishing his ...

It was sometime in 1991 when I got a call from my boss, senior news executive Ed Turner. “Rick, how would you like to get another show?” he asked. At the time I was the executive producer of CNN’s ...

It was revealed on Instagram earlier this month that Jesse has become a new client for the Creative Arts Agency (CAA)'s music division as a singer and songwriter. Jesse took to his Instagram Story, ...

Washington — President Trump on Tuesday extended sympathies to the family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson following his death at 84 and called the civil rights leader a "force of nature like few others ...

We would be wise to follow the path he forged. “Jesse Jackson is one of the very most significant political leaders in this country in the last 100 years,” declared Senator Bernie Sanders, summarizing ...

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the two-time presidential candidate and activist who was the dominant figure in Black politics from the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. until the emergence of ...

The civil rights leader died "peacefully" on Feb. 17, his family announced Stephanie Sengwe is a pop culture enthusiast with over 10 years of experience working as a digital writer, editor and ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights icon who battled alongside Martin Luther King Jr., negotiated global hostage releases, and shamed corporations for their lack of corporate diversity and ...