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Reverend Jesse Jackson

Reverend Jesse Jackson waves as he steps to the podium during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/File)
February 17, 2026, 3:11 pm
Rev. Jesse Jackson, US civil rights icon with rocky ties to Jews, dies at 84
Protégé of Martin Luther King, Jr. led Black causes for decades and broke barriers as a presidential candidate; he also had to apologize for referring to NYC as ‘Hymietown’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
The Chicago City Council debates a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on January 31, 2024. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
February 1, 2024, 4:20 am
Chicago adopts Gaza ceasefire resolution after mayor casts tie-breaking vote
Democrat Brandon Johnson splits with party leader Biden, making Chicago the largest US city to pass symbolic measure that also calls for hostages’ release but doesn’t condemn Hamas
By Jacob Magid
The Rev. Jesse Jackson arrives at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, March 1, 2020, to commemorate the 55th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday,' when white police attacked black marchers in Selma. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
March 8, 2020, 6:01 pm
Jesse Jackson backs Sanders; Harris endorses Biden
Civil rights icon says independent senator’s campaign offered him responses on 13 issues he raised, whereas former vice president didn’t reach out for endorsement
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson touches a barbed wire fence at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau to commemorate 75 years since the killings of the Sinti and Roma at the camp in Oswiecim, on August 2, 2019. (Alik Keplicz/AFP)
August 2, 2019, 2:23 pm
Long ignored, Roma genocide mourned 75 years on at Auschwitz
US civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson gathers with survivors to commemorate oft-forgotten Nazi slaughter of Eastern European minority
By Vanessa Gera
Reverend Jesse Jackson looks on during a ceremony at the Luxembourg Gardens to mark the anniversary of the abolition of slavery and to pay tribute to the victims of the slave trade, Paris, France, May 10, 2016. (AFP/ PHILIPPE WOJAZER)
May 11, 2016, 10:58 pm
Jesse Jackson ‘didn’t know’ dinner companion was far-right French politician
Former National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen posts pictures of himself at table with US civil rights activist
By Gina DOGGETT and Claire Gallen
Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, before the House Benghazi Committee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
October 31, 2015, 1:07 am
New emails show breadth of Hillary’s network
Presidential candidate’s contacts include a wide array of celebrities, campaign donors, and politicians
By Lisa Lerer
Reverend Jesse Jackson, shown here speaking at the United Nations in 2012 (photo credit: CC-BY-United States Mission Geneva/Wikimedia Commons)
September 28, 2013, 5:38 am
Rev. Jackson, in Cuba, hopes to see jailed Jewish-American Alan Gross
Civic leader has previously traveled to Yugoslavia, Syria and Iraq to help gain freedom for US citizens jailed there
By AP
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