Jesse Jackson

Joe Walsh: Jesse Jackson Wants To 'Keep African Americans Down On Some Plantation'

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.01.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) isn't backing down from controversial comments he made last week about Rev. Jesse Jackson -- instead, he's rampi...

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Rahm: Ricketts' Politics Won't Impact Ongoing Wrigley Talks

Posted 05.25.2012

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After Mayor Rahm Emanuel left a news conference on Wednesday when asked about Cubs patriarch Joe Ricketts and his super PAC's proposed Rev. Jeremiah W...

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Jesse Jackson: Attacks On Jeremiah Wright 'A Source Of Pain'

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.21.2012

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson said that recent attacks on Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the former pastor of President Obama's Chicago church, have been a personal ...

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Black-on-White Crime and the Reasons for a Media Double-Standard

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.16.2012

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Yes, there's a double-standard. And until there's full equality and the long slow process of racial healing is completed, the double-standard has to remain.

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Jay-Z: Same-Sex Discrimination No Different Than Discriminating Against Blacks

Posted 05.15.2012

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Since President Barack Obama made his historic announcement last week in support of legalizing same-sex marriage, some black celebrities have drawn pa...

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Jesse Jackson Sets Sights On Oklahoma Gun Laws

AP | KATIE FRETLAND | Posted 04.18.2012

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OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson says his Rainbow PUSH Coalition will organize to change gun laws in Oklahoma, where a shooting spree recently ...

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Baptist Leader: Obama, Black Pastors Fanning 'Racialist Fires' By Addressing Trayvon Case

AP | TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 04.15.2012

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm condemns the response of many black leaders to the Trayvon Martin ...

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Civil Rights Leaders Look To Challenging 'Stand Your Ground' Laws

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Trayvon Martin Case, Stand Your Ground, Jesse Jackson, Stand Your Ground Law, Michael Bloomberg, Trayvon Martin, Black Voices News

MIAMI — The civil rights groups that turned outrage over Trayvon Martin's death into action say their work is far from over now that his killer ...

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WATCH: Chicagoans React To Zimmerman's Murder Charge

Posted 04.12.2012

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Chicago natives who have spoken out against the shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida were relieved when George Zimmerman, who kil...

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Why the Trayvon Martin Circus Could Derail Obama's Re-election

James Marshall Crotty | Posted 04.05.2012

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I feel extremely bad and incredibly worried for Barack Obama. I like the president and most of his policies. However, the Trayvon Martin circus has grown so big and unruly, it threatens to derail the president's much-deserved second term.

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How About Getting the Facts First in Trayvon Story?

Diane Dimond | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Self Defense in Sanford Florida, Al Sharpton, Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee, Vigilante Justice, Jesse Jackson, George Zimmerman, Neighborhood Watch Volunteers, Politics News

There are two sides to every story. So, why do the media sometimes run whole hogged with the most sensational version of events and why do we eat it ...

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PHOTOS: Thousands At Rally In Trayvon Martin's Hometown

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 04.02.2012

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MIAMI -- Political leaders, sport stars and entertainers were among several thousand people who gathered Sunday at a Miami rally to call for an arrest...

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LOOK: NY Post's Front Page Calls Trayvon Supporters 'Race Hustlers'

Posted 03.27.2012

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The New York Post front page Tuesday insinuates that three black New York lawmakers (Senators Kevin Parker, Bill Perkins, and Eric Adams) wearing hood...

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Elderly Liquor Salesman Fights Off Muggers With Tequila Bottle

Posted 03.22.2012

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A 71-year-old liquor salesman found a creative way to fend off some would-be muggers Wednesday afternoon. Willie Whitehead was leaving a sales call...

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I Know Something You Don't Know

Alan Grayson | Posted 05.15.2012

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I know something you don’t know, unless you happen to have been a Democratic Member of Congress. I know what happens in the House Democratic Cau...

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Grading Schools, Failing Schools

Tim King | Posted 05.06.2012

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Closing schools is a decision with far-reaching consequences that shouldn't be undertaken for the credibility of any particular movement, but only as a final measure in support of undeserved students.

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Whitney Reminds, Black History Demands -- We Must Choose to Lose

David Alexander Bullock | Posted 04.23.2012

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The death of Whitney Houston was tragic. She was young. She was talented. She was beautiful. She brought us joy. Her death forces us to confront and consider the powerful lessons taught by loss and death.

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Company Apologizes For Racist Behavior After Mayor Steps In

Posted 02.07.2012

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A top official at a German manufacturing company issued an apology Tuesday after African American employees at its suburban Chicago office said they w...

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Voto Latino's Grammy Hits & Disses

Voto Latino | Posted 04.08.2012

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Despite all the controversy fueled by the Grammys' elimination of categories largely received by people of color, there are a couple reasons why we can't be fully mad at the biggest award show in the music industry.

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Jesse Jackson Enters Grammy Discussion, Considers Protesting Award Show

AP | NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Posted 03.28.2012

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NEW YORK — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is entering the fray over The Recording Academy's cuts to its Grammy categories: He's asking to meet with the ...

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Jesse Jackson Attacks Law That Lets Manager Fire Elected Officials

HuffingtonPost.com | David Sands | Posted 12.23.2011

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DETROIT -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson joined with U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) on Thursday to urge opposition to Michigan's emergency manager law. Jac...

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Occupy Phoenix Update:

Diane D'Angelo | Posted 02.04.2012

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Sunday Dec. 4 marked day 50 of Occupy Phoenix. The movement that many pundits dismissed as the political equivalent of "Seinfeld" i.e., a movement about nothing--scored a triple play of successes this week.

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Ali, Frazier, Jackson, Stallone: Of Image, Race, Politics, and Myth

William Bradley | Posted 01.16.2012

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Monday's Philadelphia funeral for former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Frazier brought some old but still very salient issues back to the fore. Frazier's sudden death from liver cancer has reminded many of some uncomfortable truths.

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Iran Threat Reduction Act Actually Enhances Threat of War

Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Ed Markey, Ben Ray Lujan, Yvette Clark, Sam Farr, John Lewis, Barney Frank, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Obama Administration, Diplomacy, Karen Bass, Janice Hahn, Laura Richardson, Chaka Fattah, Jared Polis, Jerrold Nadler, Emmanuel Cleaver, Iran, Frederica Wilso, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Hank Johnson, Jr., Rosa DeLauro, David Cicilline, Elijah Cummings, Steve Cohen, Charles Rangel, Corrine Brown, Iran Sanctions, Michael Honda, Jesse Jackson, Bob Filner, Carolyn Maloney, Frank Pallone, William Clay, Jan Schakowsky, Peter Welch, Linda Sanchez, Marcy Kaptur, Peter DeFazio, Robert Brady, Mazie Hirono, David Loebsack, Louise Slaughter, World News

Never in the history of this country has Congress ever restricted the right of the White House or State Department to meet with representatives of a foreign state, even in wartime. If this measure passes, it will establish a dangerous precedent.

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What if the Occupy Movement Is a Revolution?

Max Berger | Posted 01.02.2012

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The greatest contribution the occupy movement has made thus far has been to inspire us to imagine solutions at the scale of our problems. This is a revolutionary concept.

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