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June 29, 2008 Obama's had a few too many 'Sister Souljah' moments
Gray is a writer and activist who managed Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign in South Carolina. He wrote this for Progressive Media Project, ...
June 29, 2008 Darlene Brown's life story ends, 73
People think about Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They think these people are going to solve the race problem. But it's people like Darlene Brown. ...
June 29, 2008 H. Brandt Ayers: Obama, Colin, Condi are ... ?
Their spokesmen, such as Jesse Jackson, seemed to emerge as regularly and ineffectually as coo-coo clocks. Lately, Al Sharpton has taken up Jackson's role, ...
June 29, 2008 Voting, home foreclosures highlight opening day of Rainbow/PUSH ...
Jesse Jackson said Saturday. Jackson kicked off the five-day annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition conference by urging people to vote and to remember the struggles ...
June 27, 2008 Clinton diehards remain unreconciled to Obama
Tensions lingered between the troops of Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford in 1976, of Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter in 1980, of Jesse Jackson and Walter Mondale ...
June 27, 2008 Supreme Court gun ruling triggers reaction
US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D- Ill., said he is disappointed in the Supreme Court's ruling as it comes "at a time when many of our communities are reeling ...
June 26, 2008 Civil rights heroes struggled for this moment
Finally, Jesse Jackson. I knew him from the civil rights marches in North Carolina in the mid-1960s and watched, as he became an aide to King, at whose side ...
June 26, 2008 Fmr. Rep. Portman & Fmr. Sen. Hollings on "Hannity & Colmes"
I voted for Jesse Jackson in 1988. I finally saw in the London Economist that said the only logic was that a black couldn't win. ...
June 26, 2008 Didn't Mark Penn Give This Power Point?
Jesse Jackson called Obama's nomination "the last lap of a 54-year marathon race" in US race relations. Jackson: "People have been too quick to say, ...
June 26, 2008 Jackson urges Madigan to replace Harvey Park Board
US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-2nd) is asking Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan "to take emergency steps to reopen the fieldhouses, ballparks and summer ...
June 25, 2008 The Artful Dodger
I don't think he is -- I don't think that he is as deeply enmeshed in race as, say, Reverend Sharpton or Jesse Jackson would be, but the essence of what he ...
June 25, 2008 Help Clinton Retire, Again
He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards. ...
June 25, 2008 No Death Penalty for Rapists
He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards. ...
June 24, 2008 Focus On Black Vote
"It's a sensitivity," said Ronald Walters, a former strategist for Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns in the 1980s who has criticized Democratic ...
June 24, 2008 Jesse Jr. packs 'em in for N'Digo gala
As he surveyed the crowd Saturday night at the N'Digo Foundation Gala, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was pumped: He was the event's chairman, and had helped ...
June 23, 2008 Wallace opposes Peotone airport
In the past week, the proposed Peotone airport has been a hot-button issue after fellow Democrat US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., of Chicago, tried to link a ...
June 23, 2008 City's political image a risk for Obama
"What plays locally doesn't necessarily play on a national stage," said US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.). Indeed, the most damaging controversies of ...
June 22, 2008 Sweet â and sour â home Chicago
"What plays locally doesn't necessarily play on a national stage," said US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.). Indeed, the most damaging controversies of ...
June 22, 2008 Food Stamps Buy Less; Families Are Hit Hard
This month, a coalition led by Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. called on Congress to immediately enact a temporary 20 percent increase in food stamps. ...
June 21, 2008 Buying Power of Food Stamps Declines
Earlier this month, a coalition led by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. called on Congress to enact a temporary 20 percent increase in food stamps. ...
June 20, 2008 THE POLITICS OF BLACKNESS: Is this the messiah you seek
Jesse Jackson Sr. said he cried. National Newspaper Publishers Associationâs Editor-in-Chief Hazel Trice Edney wrote in the Louisiana Weekly that another ...
June 19, 2008 Think Green: The 11th District's 'Normal' candidate
You've got Jesse Jackson Jr., an incumbent Democrat, blasting a fellow Democrat, Debbie Halvorson, for an airport governance bill that he says creates ...
June 18, 2008 OBAMA MAKES HISTORY; TARGETS MCCAIN FOR THE FALL, WEEK OF JUNE 5 ...
Jesse Jackson told the NNPA News Service by phone from the United Republic of Tanzania in Africa Tuesday. ââIt is a glorious, mountaintop moment in American ...
June 18, 2008 The GOP battle for the 10th District: Shots fired in a cemetery
Broun also points out that the bill was sponsored by US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) â âTo claim that this bill does not benefit American families or ...
June 18, 2008 Miller rips Halvorson for trying to 'fool voters'
First, US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-2nd), of Chicago, attacked Halvorson for sponsoring a bill creating a south suburban airport board appointed by the ...
June 17, 2008 Commentary: Obamaâs Success Demonstrates That the American Ideal ...
Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is on record as suggesting that this Obama victory âis so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to ...
June 16, 2008 Obama seeks to unify CBC this week
... but that suggestion was shot down in a CBC meeting by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) and publicly by CBC Chairwoman Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich.). ...
June 16, 2008 06-16-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE
Jesse Jackson (Rainbow PUSH Coalition) ⢠"He took 'Meet the Press' to another level. Whenever you were the interviewee and he was the interviewer, ...
June 16, 2008 LIL WAYNE VS. AL SHARPTON: War of words ...
On the track âMisunderstood,â Wayne spits: âYou see, you are no MLK/ You are no Jesse Jackson/ You are nobody to me/ Youâre just another Don King with a ...
June 14, 2008 Random Notes
REP. JESSE JACKSON JR., D-Ill., describing his reaction to Obama clinching the Democratic nomination (The Politico) âHamas does not differentiate between ...
