The founder of the Rainbow/PUSH coalition — a US civil rights and social justice organisation — was an outspoken critic of apartheid in South Africa

Reverend Jesse Jackson paid his respects to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela this morning at her home in Soweto.

The Mail & Guardian spoke to US civil rights icon Jesse Jackson about the challenges facing South Africa’s young democracy.

US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson has called on young South Africans to go to school because their country was "free but not equal".

One-time Democratic Party bigwig Jesse Jackson Jr has pleaded guilty to misusing about $750 000 of the party’s funds on fur capes and a Rolex.

Music greats and Hollywood icons joined family members of Whitney Houston at a church in her hometown to pay tribute to her a week after her death.

The image is indelible: Jesse Jackson, once the most influential African-American leader in the US, angrily muttering about Barack Obama.

Old allies in the human rights struggle, former president Nelson Mandela and United States civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, meet again.