With Easter coming on Sunday, what better time to reflect on how the Black church has been instrumental in the fight for equal rights in the United States? Rev. Al Sharpton spoke with NewsOne about the Easter holiday and the importance of the church throughout Black History. “I think what Easter is to us is […]
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Source: Kris Connor / Getty – Rev. Jesse Jackson’s homegoing service will be held March 6 and 7. Chicago will become the center of reflection and remembrance on March 6 and 7 as political leaders, civil rights advocates, entertainers, and community members gather to celebrate the extraordinary life of Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, according to […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Somewhere in the afterlife, the ancestors are sitting at a long mahogany table. Harriet Tubman has her arms folded like she already knows this meeting is about to be stupid. Frederick Douglass is rubbing his temples the way you do when you realize you escaped slavery just for people to still […]
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Source: Jeffrey Markowitz / Getty When the news broke that Jesse Jackson died, I did what we all do now. I went online to observe the conversation. What I found wasn’t unified grief or even unified respect. It was cacophonous. A timeline full of the hottest takes. Some reverent. Some dismissive. Some clinical. Some cruel. […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty Ever since President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as apes and got panned as a racist across social media — as if that’s not an everyday thing for an everyday bigot — he has been on a “Look at my African-American over here” […]
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Source: Nadine Smith / Courtesy of Nadine Smith I met Rev. Jesse Jackson in one of the most defining moments of my early organizing life — and I had to tell him no. 1993. The March on Washington for LGBT Rights. I was one of four co-chairs of the march, young and determined, part of […]
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On Tuesday, we lost a giant when Rev. Jesse Jackson died at the age of 84. In this week’s Le[e]gal Brief, attorney Lee Merritt pays tribute to the man who inspired several generations of Black youth to believe they were somebody. “As a Black child in South Central Los Angeles, I attended 42nd Street Elementary, […]
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So I want to talk about though Barack Obama coming along, because I think at the time I probably interpreted Jesse Jackson as being envious of Barack Obama when he is criticizing him and so on. That might have been correct, but there may be a difference of political ideology. Did Jesse Jackson recognize Barack […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. The Reverend Jesse Jackson died this week at age 84. In addition to his decades of work as a civil rights activist, Jackson ran for the Democratic presidential […]
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Source: Win McNamee / Getty President Donald Trump is honoring civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died at age 84 on Tuesday, the only way anyone could have imagined Trump would… By making Jackson’s death all about himself. To Trump’s credit — or that of whoever is writing his Truth Social posts these days […]
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Source: MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images / Getty Reverend Jesse Jackson has died. He was the architect of modern multiracial progressive politics, the man who stretched the boundaries of who America could see as presidential, and one of the last living bridges between the Civil Rights Movement and the political world we are […]
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“There has been no change to the pardon process,” another White House official said. “The Administration has always had a robust review process which involves the Department of Justice, Alice Johnson, and the White House Counsel’s office. Ultimately President Trump is the final decider. Susie is simply ensuring the process, which has always existed, is […]
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Source: David Corio / Getty Over 40 years after his first presidential campaign and call for a Rainbow Coalition, Rev. Jesse Jackson’s transformative presidential campaigns offer a framework for sustaining opposition to extremist economic and political policies. His political challenge was as much about the presidency as it was about shifting culture and values. Through […]
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So Jackson ran for president in 1984 in the Democratic primaries. It was clear from the start that Walter Mondale, a respected senator and former vice president whose “turn” it was that year, was going to be the nominee. Gary Hart, then a young senator from Colorado, also ran, challenging Mondale mostly on generational arguments. […]
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“I still strongly believe in Trump’s immigration laws about, ‘Let’s get the bad guys out of here.’ You know, they’re murderers, they killed people, they molested people, let’s get them out of here,” Ceballos said to the publication. “But I feel like I don’t fit that category. And I feel like that’s how they’re treating […]
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Rev. Jesse Jackson has been called home. The civil rights leader, two-time presidential candidate, and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, passed away on Tuesday, his family said. He was 84 years old. “Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around […]
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Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty America loves to pretend historical progress is a relay race in which the past generation hands over all the freedoms they worked for to the next generation with a sweaty optimism and a Nell Carter smile. And then you realize that America isn’t a sitcom; it’s more like Game of […]
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