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Prayers Up: Rev. Jesse Jackson and His Wife, Jacqueline, Hospitalized With COVID-19
Both Rev. Jesse Jackson’s and his wife’s conditions have not been released to the public. The reverend was vaccinated against COVID-19 in January.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop William Barber II and More Arrested During Protest Against Republican Filibuster
They called the protest 'A National Call for Moral Revival.' Of course, Republicans would have needed to be moral in the first place for a 'revival' to occur.
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Kamala Harris Endorses Joe Biden While Jesse Jackson Backs Bernie Sanders
What a difference a few months make. On Sunday, former presidential hopeful Kamala Harris said she would do “everything in my power” to help elect Joe Biden into office in 2020. The California senator, who seemed to be a formidable opponent – at least on the debate stage – before dropping out of the Democratic…
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Rev. Jesse Jackson Posts Bail for Cook County Jail Inmates on Christmas
On Christmas Day, Rev. Jackson Jackson Sr. posted the bonds of a handful of inmates at Cook County Jail in Chicago so they could spend the holiday with loved ones. After Jackson paid the bonds, cameras captured him walking arm-in-arm with the released men, ABC News reports. “This is just a good feeling. It brings…
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Jesse Jackson and Son Jesse Jr. Beg Trump’s Pardon for Disgraced Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich
Civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his oldest son, former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., are throwing their weight behind a push to implore Donald Trump for the release and full presidential pardon of Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor imprisoned for trying to auction off Barack Obama’s old U.S. Senate seat to…
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Biden Defends Record on Race Before a Black Audience at Rainbow-PUSH Convention
A day after getting spanked on the issue of race during the second night of the Democrats’ presidential primary debate, former Vice President Joe Biden defended his civil rights record Friday before an African-American organization, at the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow-PUSH Coalition convention. Friday’s appearance was Biden’s first after he took a beating on the…
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T.I., the Central Park Five, and Ebenezer Baptist Church Kick Off Summit to End Mass Incarceration
Anyone who thinks the black church is a bygone relic with no relevance to the social justice struggles of today may need to reassess. “The church” is obviously not a monolith and is taking on everything from mental illness and HIV/AIDS to voter suppression and mass incarceration. In that vein, Rev. Raphael Warnock and the…
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Keep Hope Alive: Jesse Jackson Campaign Tees Make a Comeback—in Asia?
Who knew that Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign logo was a seminal piece of graphic design? The presidential run itself was historic. But 30 years later, why has there been a sudden resurgence in popularity for the memorabilia of the first black man to run for president—and why was that interest generated within the Asian market?…
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Jesse Jackson to Black Journalists in 1984: ‘You Work in Pain’
Jackson: ‘Before You Be a Little of Everything to Everybody, Be Something Special to Where You Live’ The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson spoke before about 860 people on Saturday night, Aug. 18, 1984, at the banquet of the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention. Among those in the audience was Coretta Scott King. Here are…