President Donald Trump reflected on Reverend Jesse Jackson’s life after his passing was announced on Tuesday, calling the civil rights activist a man who “truly loved people.”
President Donald Trump reflected on his long relationship with Jesse Jackson following Jackson’s death on Tuesday, adding that the civil rights activist “could not stand” former President Barack Obama.
Former presidential candidate and civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson died early Tuesday morning following a lengthy illness, his family announced. He was 84.
Former presidential candidate and Civil Rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson was recently hospitalized and is now breathing without the help of machines, his family says.
For a fourth night in a row, the Chicago Police Department was forced to call for reinforcements downtown as large numbers of teens gathered and engaged in rioting, violence, and even a Saturday night shooting.
Uncle Tom II “has the potential to change race relations in this country if enough people saw it,” Larry Elder told Breitbart News.
Rev. Jesse Jackson has compared the UK to the Taliban over the presence of ‘white male supremacy’ within the country.
Glenn Loury, a Brown University economics professor and host of the video blog The Glenn Show, blasted leftwing civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton — as well as the Democrat Party for boosting his career — claiming the reverend employs a “very high-level shtick” in his efforts to assist blacks, which he deemed counterproductive.
Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus, the Associated Press (AP) reported Sunday.
Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested Monday with other activists protesting for “voting rights” on Capitol Hill.
Reverend Jesse Jackson dismissed the results of a British study on diversity, saying the country has a “pattern of racism.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) read a bedtime story to Americans Friday night. He chose Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson narrated a Dr. Seuss audiobook before the claims that some of his books contain racist images.
On Friday night, radical Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists held a Black National Convention, which aimed to “reach and engage four million Black voters across the US, build infrastructure of Black political engagement that transcends the 2020 election season, and create and ratify a policy platform for the first 100 days of the next administration.”
Left-wing activist Rev. Jesse Jackson decried widespread looting in the Democrat-run city of Chicago Monday morning, calling it “humiliating, embarrassing, and morally wrong.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden is refusing to explain what he meant when he used the term “roaches” at the renaming of a community pool in 2017.
Joe Biden suggested on Monday he was just as responsible for ginning up turnout among black voters in 2008 and 2012 as his former running mate, President Barack Obama.
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed to have committed his whole life to civil rights on Sunday during a speech at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Former Vice President Joe Biden looms over the field of 2020 Democrats in South Carolina thanks in part to his advantage among black voters.
Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted “a lot of people were left behind” during his and President Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House.
Former Vice President Joe Biden hired a top speech coach known for his work with former President Bill Clinton one day after his poor performance in the first Democrat presidential debate.
MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson this week that presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (D) has a huge problem because even President Donald Trump is more popular than Buttigieg with the party’s most important voters—black Democrats.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg spoke at a Chicago conference hosted by Jesse Jackson on Tuesday, but he opened his speech with a joke that flopped with the audience.”He’s our guest, on your feet,” Jackson urged, prompting the crowd to stand and applaud.
Rev. Jesse Jackson undercut the defense former Vice President Joe Biden has been making about his longstanding opposition to busing.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday warned Black Americans of a new civil war if the federal government failed to end racist institutions and pay reparations for slavery.
Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, jumped to defend former Vice President Joe Biden after the latter’s record on civil rights became a target at the first Democrat presidential debate.
Rev. Jesse Jackson criticized former Vice President Joe Biden for not using the platform provided by the first Democrat presidential debate to address his record on race and civil rights.
Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke to activists at Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow/Push Coalition on Friday, delivering a lengthy speech defending his civil rights record after Sen. Kamala Harris highlighted his opposition to public busing during Thursday’s debate.
Former Vice President Joe Biden supported a constitutional amendment to prevent forced busing to achieve school desegregation.
Friday, Rev. Jesse Jackson weighed in on Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) spat during the second Democrat debate with former Vice President Joe Biden over his busing vote in the 1970s. Jackson backed Harris on the issue which caused a heated
Former Vice President Joe Biden exaggerated his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement during his first presidential run.
Former Vice President Joe Biden referred to Rev. Jesse Jackson as “boy” in 1984 when discussing his impact on the Democrat Party.
While Cook County prosecutors may have let Empire actor Jussie Smollett off for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself, one legal expert predicts the city of Chicago could still cause him major issues. Chicago officials last Thursday announced plans to file
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) on Saturday slammed the Chicago police union as the “sworn enemy of black people” for demanding Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx resign over her office’s handling of Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s case, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is facing blistering criticism from an anonymous assistant state’s attorney in her office over the handling of Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s case, who described the situation as “an international laughing stock” in a letter published by CWB Chicago on Monday.
A supporter of Cook County Attorney Kim Foxx, whose office recently dropped all charges against Empire actor Jussie Smollett, refered to the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police as the “Blue Klux Klan” in a Saturday afternoon press conference — a racial slur the top prosecutor would not refute when asked whether she concurred with the comparison.
Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday released a statement branding the “outrage” surrounding Jussie Smollett as “fake news” and called on people still angered by allegations that the Empire actor staged a hate crime against himself to move on from the scandal.
Jussie Smollett’s community service consisted of 18 hours’ volunteering for Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition on Saturday and Monday.
Jesse Jackson now claims he was “offended” by the fast food meal that President Trump arranged for the Clemson Tigers White House visit.
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton visited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) this week, with Sharpton saying that he and Ocasio-Cortez discussed how to “fight back against the disastrous anti-civil rights agenda enacted by the Trump administration.”
