George Lombard Jr. has been influenced, and "inspired," by Posy Lombard, a woman he never met. She died 20 years before he was born.

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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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon, prominent orator and two-time presidential candidate who died Feb. 17, protested ...

The Baptist minister and humanitarian twice campaigned for the U.S. presidency and was the most successful Black candidate until Barack Obama. The former president credited the work of Jackson in ...

The hallways of Broughton High School have been walked by future leaders. Its hardwood courts have been crossed by future professional athletes. And its stage once hosted a town hall with President ...

Perhaps the greatest legacy Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. leaves behind is the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, his landmark national service organization focused on social justice and fighting for social change.

A witness to MLK's assassination, he helped lead the Civil Rights Movement and twice ran for president Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to PEOPLE for over 20 ...

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84 after battling Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Parkinson's Disease. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson became a key figure ...