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CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson said on Monday he’s deeply insulted by a Fox News host’s “attack” on Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James and thanked the basketball All-Star for standing up for what he believes in.

Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed” brought civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson on to discuss the National Anthem protests in the NFL. Jackson bashed Trump for referring to the anthem kneelers as “sons of b******,” and then took aim at the NFL. “To

Evangelical Bishop Aubrey Shines slammed Jesse Jackson’s “shameful” assertion that President Donald Trump “would not qualify to get into Jesus’ kingdom.”

Monday in Washington D.C. at the National Action Network’s “Ministers March for Justice,” civil rights activist Jesse Jackson declared that President Donald Trump “would not qualify to get into Jesus’ kingdom.” Jackson said, “Trump says you must be able to

Thursday in Chicago at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition convention, Rev. Jesse Jackson said Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the 2016 presidential election only to have it “stolen” by President Donald Trump. While introducing Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez, Jackson said, “To

Sunday on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” Rainbow PUSH Coalition president Jesse Jackson said the Trump administration’s plan to assist Chicago with its gun violence epidemic would not work. Jackson said, “It’s not just emergency, it’s more than that. This is an international

Bill Cosby is reportedly “stung” that even Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are refusing to play the race card for him.

MILO spoke to a student audience at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he addressed the left’s history of race-baiting.

During a press conference last month with German leader Angela Merkel in Berlin, President Barack Obama provided us with a “Jesse Jackson moment.”

Wednesday at the University of Michigan, civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson called on outgoing President Barack Obama to pardon Hillary Clinton. Jackson said, “President Lincoln pardoned Jefferson Davis and other confederates who engaged in treason against the United States

Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore and the Reverend Jesse Jackson will host a get-out-the-vote rally in support of Hillary Clinton in Flint, Michigan Monday night, with less than 24 hours remaining until polls open on Election Day.

Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “Coast to Coast,” while discussing the riots in Charlotte, NC over the recent police shootings, Rainbow PUSH Coalition founder Jesse Jackson said when you “never get justice and fairness, you have these rebellions.” Jackson said, “Let me put

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Civil rights activist and one time Democrat candidate for president Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke early during the third day of the Democrat National Convention, straying from his prepared remarks and accidentally calling Democrat VP nominee Tim Kaine “Tom.”

During the July 10 airing of Fox News Sunday, Jesse Jackson said that AK-47s in Texas “can bring down airplanes.”

On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” while discussing the racial discourse in America due to the recent police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota and the shooting of police officers in Dallas, the founder and president of the Rainbow

Sen. Bernie Sanders very public meeting with Al Sharpton in New York City on Wednesday should not surprise keen political observers.

Twitter has hired former Apple executive Jeffery Siminoff, a white male, as vice president of diversity and inclusion, the company announced Monday.

Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel is facing growing calls for his resignation a full two weeks after the city released the shocking police dashcam video of a city police officer shooting an African-American teen to death.

The death of Michael Brown brought the birth of “Hands up, don’t shoot,” the media-fuelled fallacy and force behind a Black Lives Matter movement that flat-out ignores the main driver of Black America’s morass.

Chicago news headline after headline detailed the carnage that has consumed dozens of communities in that city where black men kill each other with terrifying regularity.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) criticized Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Chicago protests as “exploitation of situation” on Friday’s “Varney & Co” on the Fox Business Network. Clarke stated that the rally in Chicago headed by Jackson “highlights, I believe, the

A third day of protests descended upon Chicago’s busy downtown Michigan Avenue shopping district, shutting down some stores as protesters barricaded doors arm-in-arm to prevent shoppers from entering or leaving stores on Chicago’s famed “Magnificent Mile.”

Friday on the Fox Business Channel, Rainbow Coalition PUSH founder Jesse Jackson said he is protesting Black Friday in downtown Chicago’s shopping district dubbed the Magnificent Mile in order to bring attention to the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald and

Roughly 3,000 demonstrators have shut down a large portion of Michigan Avenue in Chicago–the “Magnificent Mile”–in the middle of Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, to protest the shooting of black teenager Laquon McDonald.

Demonstrators  in Chicago say they will march down the city’s Magnificent Mile to disrupt Black Friday shopping in order to bring attention to the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. After Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder,

On Thursday thousands of Chicago residents had their Thanksgiving interrupted by a robocall featuring the voice of Jesse Jackson, Sr. and sponsored by the Chicago Teachers Union urging Chicagoans to join them in disrupting the Windy City’s Black Friday shopping day downtown.

Friday, hundreds of students–both black and white–at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina walked out of class in support of Ben Fields, the Richland County sheriff’s deputy shown in a viral video forcefully removing a noncompliant student Monday.

Videos of a white deputy roughly pulling a non-compliant black high school student out of her chair and then dragging her on the floor went viral Monday night, just hours after the incident occurred at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. Over half of Spring Valley High’s students are black.

A report by the Chicago Sun-Times reveals that the Chicago Police Department started a special program to monitor local African-American groups after the death of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s daughter Ashley may be a budding rapper now, but her father is nixing any mention of the “n-word” from his daughter’s songs.

Controversial civil rights activist and anti-gun campaigner Reverend Jesse Jackson visited fugitive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London yesterday. Although it is not known what precisely was discussed, when Jackson left the building he told reporters: “800 years after the Magna

This followed the sacking of Victoria Taylor, a popular site admin, after a Reddit Q&A with the Rev. Jesse Jackson went badly for the activist preacher.

Friday in Charleston, on “Democracy Now!” outside the Emanuel AME Church, Rev. Jesse Jackson said, “I am not impressed with the “kumbaya” moment unless there is some plan for financial investment and a budget alteration. If the flag comes down,

The National Action Network (NAN)—Al Sharpton’s civil rights group that has close ties to the Obama administration—has called on the New Black Panther Party to get out of Charleston, South Carolina. Local NAN leaders held a press conference Wednesday night in Marion Square, where the Panther rally had been held the night before and said they “will not allow hate” in the wake of the slaughter of nine black churchgoers, allegedly at the hands of a white racist.

On June 6, Reverend Michael Pfleger listed recent shootings in heavily gun-controlled Chicago then said the NRA “will pay pay for the murder of our children.”