Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced plans to step down as president of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the international human and civil rights organization he founded.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, 81, is stepping down from his role as leader of the influential civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced Friday he is stepping down from the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition after a half century at the helm of the influential Chicago-based civil rights organization. The iconic a… ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Operation PUSH, pokes a finger at Benjamin Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post, as they discuss issues on the floor of Madison Square Garden on July 13 ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced Saturday that he is stepping down from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition after 52 years at the helm. Jackson, 81, announced his resignation as president during the ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson stands on the motel balcony on Feb. 14, 2018, the location where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. in 1968.

Rev. Jesse Jackson marches in an anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 15, 1991. (Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images) In November 2021, Jackson was hospitalized for a head injury ...

Physician Kiran Chekka injects Rev. Jesse Jackson with the COVID-19 vaccine in the Roseland Community Hospital’s parking lot on Jan. 8, 2021. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times 2021 ...

The Reverend Jesse Jackson is stepping down as the leader of the Rainbow-Push Coalition after more than a half century of activism. After more than five decades, the Rainbow-Push Coalition has a ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson announces that he is stepping down as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Saturday, July 15, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty) “I am somebody,” he said.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks at O’Hare International Airport on Jan. 10, 1984, during his campaign for president. A young Jackson in 1966 was assigned by King’s Atlanta-based Southern ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, is joined by baseball great Hank Aaron, left, at a meeting of Operation PUSH at the Sheraton in Rosemont, Illinois, Monday, June 29, 1987. (Mark Elias-AP) ...