It turns out that the "endorsement" Rev. Jackson reportedly gave to Lt. Gov. Stratton before he passed away, that she released over the weekend, was not actually an endorsement.

Just days before the primary, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton announced that Rev. Jesse Jackson endorsed her before he died, stirring some last-minute campaign controversy.

It is rare for private citizens to be honored at the Capitol, but there is precedent - most notably Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks, in 2005, and the Reverend Billy Graham, in 2018.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's family and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition have released a new schedule of services to remember the late civil rights icon, which now includes Chicago, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.

Chicago continues to mourn the Reverend Jesse Jackson after his death and flags outside City Hall are at half staff Wednesday morning.

An African Nova Scotian church leader says the community is devastated by the death of Rev. Jesse Jackson, who visited the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia in 2009.