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EDITOR’S NOTE: This article contains descriptions of sexual abuse and domestic violence that some readers may find distressing. Public anger over the case of Jesse Mack Butler intensified this week as ...

After spending two weeks at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Rev. Jesse Jackson has been discharged, according to a Nov. 24 statement from his family. The civil rights icon was hospitalized ...

Longtime civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson was released from a Chicago hospital on Monday after receiving medical care for at least 12 days for a rare brain disorder, according to his family.

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., the civil rights icon who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., created economic opportunities for Black Americans and ran for president, has been released from the ...

The Los Angeles Lakers are firing longtime executives Joey and Jesse Buss, according to ESPN. The Buss brothers have maintained a role within L.A's front office for two decades, with Joey serving as ...

Ozark native and recent Grammy nominee Jesse Welles performed last night on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." Welles, strumming a red guitar with American flags in the background, played the ...

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson remains in stable condition on Monday and will be moved out of the ICU later in the day, according to an update from the Rainbow Push Coalition. Jackson, 84, a ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is in stable condition despite remaining hospitalized, his family said in a statement on Nov. 16. Jackson, 84, was admitted to a hospital on Nov. 12 under observation for ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s family insisted Sunday that the civil-rights icon is in stable condition and “not on life support” in the wake of “inaccurate media reports’’ about his health. Jackson, 84, ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson remained hospitalized in stable condition as he continued to receive treatment for a rare neurological condition, his family said Sunday. Jackson was rushed to Northwestern Memorial ...

The family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson provided an update on Sunday afternoon about the condition of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition founder. Jackson was admitted to the hospital last week. The family in a ...