Jesse Jackson Sr.
-
JESSE JACKSON: Trump Administration’s Health Care Lies Are Starting to Hurt
For many of his supporters, Donald Trump's casual relationship with the truth was at first amusing, part of his brash,…
Read More » -
President Obama Says Farewell in Chicago (Photos by Travis Riddick)
President Barack Obama gives his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago on Jan. 10.
Read More » -
JESSE JACKSON: New Museum Is a Stunning Achievement
Demonstrations continue in Charlotte, N.C., and protests have spread to Atlanta and elsewhere, sparked most recently by the police killing…
Read More » -
JESSE JACKSON: Republican Party Rejects Black Voters
Are black voters so loyal to Democrats that their issues are ignored? Donald Trump suggests as much, arguing that blacks…
Read More » -
JESSE JACKSON: How to Win Elections Behind the Cotton Curtain
We won the Voting Rights Act of 1965 at Selma, combining the power of a principled mass movement led by…
Read More » -
JESSE JACKSON: Charters, Heavy Testing Hurt Our Schools
Across the country, parents have been in revolt against high-stakes standardized testing, with kids tested over and over again while…
Read More » -
JESSE JACKSON: Separate and Impoverished
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic candidate for president, shocked people when he noted that 51 percent of African-Americans aged 17…
Read More » -
CHAVIS: Salute to Rev. Jesse Jackson on his 75th Birthday
Seventy-five years ago, a freedom fighter was born in Greenville, South Carolina. His name is Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., and…
Read More » -
One Year After Ferguson: Change Still Must Come
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist After three days of peaceful demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of Michael…
Read More » -
Saddened by Death of Julian Bond
By Jesse Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The news this weekend that Julian Bond passed away at 75 saddened me…
Read More »
