Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH.
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Views Tuesday, July 14, 2020 A New Generation of Protest Holds Great Promise for America The inspiring rise of a new generation protesting against racial injustice is driving a new era of change in America, like the generation that emerged 60 years ago to build the civil rights movement of that time. July 16, 1960 is marked in my memory: that is the day I joined seven other friends to... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Too Many African American Children Are Born in Shackles “I can’t breathe,” pled George Floyd in Minneapolis and Eric Garner in New York City and Javier Ambler in Austin, Texas, before police killed them. Amid the protests against brutality, Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, whom police found asleep in his car, was shot twice in the back and killed. In Austin... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 09, 2020 Police Reform Was Never Going to Be Easy—But Now's the Time As the worldwide demonstrations continue two weeks after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, the question is whether outrage will lead to real reforms? Fundamental reforms would begin with ending the "qualified immunity" of police, curbing the militarization of police forces,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 02, 2020 "I Can't Breathe": The Murder of George Floyd Was a Lynching in Broad Daylight The murder of George Floyd was a lynching in broad daylight. Three police officers stood and watched as a fourth, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s neck. They watched for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, with Floyd unresponsive for 2 minutes and 53 seconds of that, according to the criminal complaint... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 25, 2020 Americans Have United Before to Defeat an External Enemy and We Can Again We live in a time of bitter divisions. Today, even the wearing of masks has become a partisan question. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Remembering the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education Sunday, May 17, marked the 66th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. the Board of Education . The Brown decision addressed consolidated issues from four different cases — in Kansas, South Carolina, Delaware and Virginia—involving racial segregation. The unanimous... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 13, 2020 The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery—And Our Continuing Terror Today there is a national outcry about the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The public condemnation has forced a belated response. Those accused of his murder finally have been arrested . His murder has become a global embarrassment for whites. For blacks, however, it is another humiliation, a continuing... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 05, 2020 We Must Protect the Right to Vote in the November Elections The coronavirus does not discriminate, but people do. The coronavirus is not partisan, but politicians are. When we should be coming together to address a shared crisis, some are intent on driving us apart and exacting partisan advantage in the midst of the crisis. Across the country, Republicans... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Let Prisoners Go During COVID-19 Pandemic Across the United States and across the world, prisoners are among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. Overcrowded facilities, shortages of food and medicine, and totally inadequate testing expose prisoners who are disproportionately poor and afflicted with prior conditions that render them... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Coronavirus Has Made Incarceration a Potential Death Sentence This week, the New York Times featured the story of how the coronavirus savaged the Federal Correctional Complex in Oakdale, Louisiana. On March 28, Patrick Jones, 49, serving a 27-year sentence for possession of crack cocaine with the intent to distribute, became the first federal inmate to die of... Read more |