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.
Articles by this author
 |
Views Tuesday, May 11, 2021 We Must Push Politics Aside in the Global Race to Vaccinate the World Against Covid-19 India is now ground zero for COVID-19. On Saturday, it suffered a record of more than 335,000 new infections and more than 4,000 deaths in one day. Hospitals are running out of oxygen and beds. Morgues and crematoria are overwhelmed. In total, a staggering 22.6 million people in India have been... Read more |
 |
Views Friday, April 30, 2021 The Case for D.C. Statehood Is Clear Last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 51, a bill that would make Washington, D.C., the 51st state of the union. It finally would end the denial of voting representation to its more than 700,000 residents, the majority of whom are Black or Brown. The bill was passed 216-208, with... Read more |
 |
Views Tuesday, April 13, 2021 The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act Is the Reform We Need Even as Derek Chauvin is on trial for the murder of George Floyd, police 10 miles away fatally shot an African American man, Duante Wright, after pulling him over for an alleged traffic violation. That triggered protests that led to confrontations with police, despite Wright’s family pleading for... Read more |
 |
Views Monday, April 05, 2021 Has America Come Any Closer to MLK's Dream? Last weekend marked the 53d anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination. Over half a century. Has America come any closer to his dream? He would be pleased at some of our progress. Segregation is no longer the law of the land. The Voting Rights Act helped open doors. Dr. King would be... Read more |
 |
Views Tuesday, March 23, 2021 We Must Confront the Ugly Plague of Racism and Hate Crimes Last week’s murder of eight people in North Georgia, six of them Asian American women, has brought national attention to the increasing violence and hatred suffered by Asian Americans in this country, and to the continuing reality of violence against women Hate crimes against Asian Americans were... Read more |
 |
Views Tuesday, March 16, 2021 The Right to Vote Is Essential to a Functioning Democracy The right to vote is the essential foundation of democracy. Yet today, across America, there is a systematic campaign by one party to curtail the right to vote, targeted particularly at minorities and the young. As the Brennan Center for Justice reports, Republicans have introduced more than 250... Read more |
 |
Views Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Violence Towards Asian Americans Has Skyrocketed A new wave of anti-Asian racial violence is sweeping the country. Sadly, racial violence, bigotry and hatred directed at Asian Americans has scarred their history in this country. Nothing is more dehumanizing. Asian Americans come from many countries and many cultures. They have played a remarkable... Read more |
 |
Views Tuesday, February 23, 2021 Our Fundamental Right to Vote Is Under Attack The fundamental right in a democracy—the right to vote—is once more under siege. In state after state, Republican legislators have introduced literally hundreds of bills designed to suppress voting. Their passion is fueled by Donald Trump’s big lie that the presidential election was "stolen" from... Read more |
 |
Views Tuesday, February 16, 2021 43 Republican Senators Chose To Stand With the Seditionists Rather Than Defend the Republic When asked what the Constitutional Convention had created, Benjamin Franklin replied, "A Republic if we can keep it." On Saturday, by an unprecedented bipartisan vote of 57-43, the Senate voted to keep the Republic and convict Donald Trump of his seditious incitement of the sacking of the Capitol... Read more |
 |
Views Tuesday, February 02, 2021 So-Called "Moderates" Always Say Helping the Poor Costs Too Much—But Their Lavish Gifts to the Rich Give Them Away In his first 10 days in office, Joe Biden has launched an intense effort to address the “cascading crises” that America faces. In addition to issuing executive orders to reverse several of Trump’s most poisonous acts — ending federal contracting with private prisons, reviving enforcement of... Read more |