The civil rights leader, whose dealmaking skills pushed Wall Street to invest in minority-owned businesses, died on Tuesday.

Jackson's presidential runs in 1984 and 1988 played a significant role in shaping the modern Democratic Party.

The US civil rights activist's influence spread from the churches of the Deep South to the White House.

A fixture in civil rights and Democratic politics since the 1960s, Jackson was once close to Martin Luther King Jr

The Baptist Minister Was Raised in the Segregated American South and Was a Close Associate of Martin Luther King Jr. His 1984 Campaign to Be the Democratic Party's Presidential…

Jesse Jackson, was a tireless activist, skilled diplomat and influential politician who made two transformative presidential runs in the 1980s.

The civil rights campaigner has died aged 84. Jackson was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and ran twice for the Democratic presidential nomination. Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil…

"Every ethnic group in this country has a reference to some base, some historical, cultural base," he said in the late 1980s.

The civil rights leader, whose dealmaking skills pushed Wall Street to invest in minority-owned businesses, died on Tuesday.

In 2026, diversity efforts across tech companies and corporate America are facing rollbacks, precisely the moment Reverend Jackson warned about.