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, October 30, 2018 We Must Not Be Bystanders When Darkness Descends These are dark times. Thirteen pipe bombs were sent to two former presidents and other political and cultural leaders. In Kentucky, a white man shot and killed two elderly African-Americans at random in a Kroger grocery store, after failing to force his way into a black church. In Pittsburgh, in... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 06, 2018 NFL Owners’ Treatment of Colin Kaepernick Disgraces League and Country Colin Kaepernick may yet get his day in court. Kaepernick is the talented former NFL quarterback who in 2016 began a protest against police brutality and institutionalized racial discrimination by kneeling during the playing of the national anthem. Other players joined the protests. Kaepernick wasn... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 05, 2018 Arrogant Supreme Court Justices Trample the Law in Service of the Rich We are witnessing an astounding attack on democracy by the five male right-wing majority of the Supreme Court — “black robed rulers,” Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan called them, “overruling citizens’ choices” in a series of 5-4 decisions. These are right-wing lawless judges ignoring the laws and... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 27, 2018 The Question in November: ‘What Kind of Country Do We Want to Be?' For President Trump, the campaign never ends. He is on the stump, in full campaign mode now. He is intent on nationalizing this fall’s congressional elections. As Steve Bannon put it, “Donald Trump will be on every ballot.” The choice will be for Trump or against. Trump is even prepared to scar... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 27, 2017 Trump Tries to Divide Us, But We Are Better Nation Than That When Colin Kaepernick first took a knee during the national anthem last year, he acted alone, a silent protest against a society that repeatedly fails to hold police accountable for the killing of unarmed African Americans. Kaepernick was condemned and now essentially has been banned from the NFL,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 08, 2017 Trump’s Minion Prepares to Gut Consumer Watchdog "Personnel is policy," says Gary Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs recently named to head President Trump’s National Economic Council. He got that right, and every working family should shudder that Trump — after railing against the corruptions of Goldman Sachs and other big banks in the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 04, 2017 Civil Rights at Risk Under Jeff Sessions Confirmation hearings for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, named by Donald Trump to be attorney general of the United States, will begin on Jan. 10, before Trump is even inaugurated. The rush and insistence on only two days of hearings reflect Republican efforts to cram the nomination through before... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Police Shootings About Class As Well As Race After three days of peaceful demonstrations marking the one year anniversary of Michael Brown’s fatal shooting in Ferguson, Mo., yet another African-American man was shot by police there. While the facts are still unclear, the tragedy will surely add to the national protests challenging our... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 11, 2013 From War to Peace: Forceful Diplomacy, Not Military Force in Syria The President’s remarks reflect the extraordinary events unfolding in the last two days that demonstrate that forceful diplomacy – not military force – should guide international efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Message to NATO: We Need Smarter Kids, Not More Smart Bombs Chicago is girding for the opening of the NATO Summit on May 20. The ministers and heads of state will be greeted by a rich array of protests, marches, events and counter-summits. Security is already tight near the conference center, and tensions are building. Read more |