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**FILE** New York city navigation: Wall street signboard with Water street and one way signboards fixed on a pole at a traffic intersection in New York city, USA. (Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Op-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: A New Plan to Make Wall Street Pay for Creating the Foreclosure Crisis

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. June 5, 2019December 21, 2021

Billionaire philanthropist Robert F. Smith speaks at the 135th Commencement of Morehouse College on May 19.

Op-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: We Can Free a Generation from Burden of College Loan Debt

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. May 29, 2019December 21, 2021

The Rev. Jesse Jackson (center) shows support for the pro-Maduro quartet in a march from the Venezuelan Embassy to the White House and led chants during a protest at the Venezuelan Embassy in northwest D.C. on May 19. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Venezuelan Embassy Showdown Continues

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. May 22, 2019December 21, 2021

Kay Ivey

Op-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: Extremist Laws Will Make it Harder for Poor Women to End Pregnancies

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. May 22, 2019December 21, 2021

Op-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: Decades After Brown v. Board of Education, We Risk Going Backward

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. May 15, 2019December 21, 2021

Catherine Fitch, 58, recently received a bachelor's degree in social work from UDC. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

Persistent Grandmother Gets UDC Degree

by James Wright Jr. May 15, 2019December 21, 2021

**FILE** New York city navigation: Wall street signboard with Water street and one way signboards fixed on a pole at a traffic intersection in New York city, USA. (Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Op-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: Making Wall Street Pay for Foreclosure Crisis

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. May 1, 2019December 21, 2021

President Donald Trump announces that he will declare a national emergency in order to build a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border without funding from Congress during a press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 15, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

Op-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: The Politics Behind Trump’s Empty Border Threats

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. April 10, 2019October 31, 2020

Op-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: Modern-Day Poll Tax a New Low

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. March 27, 2019October 31, 2020

Martin Luther King Jr. was a champion for equity in education. Ralph Abernathy and his wife Juanita Abernathy (not pictured) follow with Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., as the Abernathy children march on the front line, leading the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. The children are (from left) Donzaleigh Abernathy (in striped sweater), Ralph David Abernathy III and Juandalynn R. Abernathy (in glasses). The name of the White minister in the photo is unknown. (Abernathy family photos/Wikipedia Commons)

Op-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: Selma, the Birthplace of Modern Democracy in America

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. March 5, 2019October 31, 2020