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Jesse Jackson

Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. ) is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH.

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17 September 2013
Five years after the crash began
Jesse Jackson
Five years after the beginning of the financial collapse and the Great Recession, where are we? This week, President Obama offered Americans a progress report...
27 August 2013
50 years later: The president’s response
Jesse Jackson
This Wednesday, Aug. 28, on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “Dream” oration, President Barack Obama will...
20 August 2013
King’s unfinished symphony of freedom
Jesse Jackson
Next weekend, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, best known for Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Dream.”
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15 August 2013
King’s march was for jobs and freedom
Jesse Jackson
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the famous March on Washington — Aug. 28 — Americans will recall Dr. King’s famous “dream”; many can recite entire...
29 July 2013
North Carolina’s Tea Party nightmares
Jesse Jackson
North Carolina — once poster child for the New South — now displays the nightmares spawned by the Tea Party right no longer restrained by the Voting Rights Act...
22 July 2013
From conversation to action: After Trayvon
Jesse Jackson
President Barack Obama eloquently described the agony experienced among African-Americans from the slaying of Trayvon Martin. He called for a more thoughtful “...

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