'We're winning': Jesse Jackson on Martin Luther King, Obama and...
From Selma to Ferguson and Charleston, the civil rights leader marched with Martin Luther King, prayed with Bill Clinton and ran for president before Obama. So what does he think of the black activist...
View ArticleCornel West: Bernie Sanders is an insurgent on par with Jesse Jackson
Prominent African American supporter of the independent senator running for president says Sanders campaign ‘is even more progressive’ than Jackson’sBernie Sanders is as much an insurgent as Jesse...
View ArticleLamar Odom needs our prayers, says the Rev Jesse Jackson – video
Jackson gives an update on the condition of former NBA star and reality TV personality, who was reportedly found unconscious at Nevada’s Love Ranch on Tuesday and later put on life support. Jackson...
View ArticleApple shareholders reject diversity plan to recruit minorities as company...
Tim Cook urged investors not to vote through plans to accelerate recruitment of minorities on its 18-person board – which currently has 15 white menApple shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected a...
View ArticleWhat Bernie Sanders needs to learn from Jesse Jackson | Joy-Ann Reid
On the surface, the two men could not be more different. But Jackson’s radical campaigns for the nomination hold valuable lessons for the Vermont senatorDespite being routed in the latest round of...
View Article'An international disgrace': Jesse Jackson calls for Chicago to close Homan...
The civil rights leader condemned police department for alleged human rights violations at its ‘black site’ where thousands of detainees have been heldThe Rev Jesse Jackson has called for Chicago...
View ArticleJesse Jackson says he 'didn't know' dinner companion Jean-Marie Le Pen
The civil rights leader, in France to commemorate the abolition of slavery, voiced ‘disgust’ at the far-right veteran’s views after an allegedly inadvertent enounterThe US civil rights leader Jesse...
View ArticleWhen Margaret Thatcher met Jesse Jackson: 1990 file tells of ‘civil and...
Files reveal how UK advisers viewed US civil rights leader with suspicionAdvisers to Margaret Thatcher agonised over whether the then prime minister should agree to meet American civil rights leader...
View ArticleJesse Jackson says he's been seeking care for two years for Parkinson's disease
The 76-year-old civil rights leader and ex-presidential candidate says diagnosis was ‘not a stop sign but rather a signal that I must make lifestyle changes’The Rev Jesse Jackson disclosed publicly on...
View ArticleJesse Jackson on Martin Luther King's assassination: 'It redefined America'
The civil rights veteran, one of only two surviving witnesses to King’s murder 50 years ago, says his mentor’s response to Trump would have been: ‘We must not surrender our spirits’Jesse Jackson still...
View ArticleSeriously ill Aretha Franklin visited by Stevie Wonder and Jesse Jackson
Singer’s nephew says family and friends ‘trying to keep her spirits up’ as she receives hospice care at homeStevie Wonder and Jesse Jackson are among those to visit the seriously ill soul singer Aretha...
View ArticleJesse Jackson: 'Hate and violence are raining down on our country'
The civil rights leader discusses the attack on Jussie Smollett and how Trump’s rhetoric is pushing the US towards a ‘crisis’ Donald Trump has energized violent bigots including those allegedly behind...
View ArticleJesse Jackson: 'The gated community does not protect you from the pandemic'
After more than 50 years fighting for civil rights, the activist is now watching coronavirus ravage African American communities. But he has a warning for the rich and powerfulThe Rev Jesse Jackson was...
View ArticleThe power of touch: I was hugged for the first time at 18. It meant...
I had grown up in brutal poverty, and saw touch as a privilege for those with less traumatic backgrounds. Then a friend and mentor changed my lifeWelcome to the Guardian’s Power of Touch seriesIt...
View ArticleSummer of Soul review – the best concert film ever made?
Questlove’s magnificent documentary of the forgotten 1969 Harlem Cultural festival gives moving context to rediscovered footage of Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone et al in their primeThis...
View ArticleRev Jesse Jackson in hospital with Covid-19
Civil rights leader, who is vaccinated, being monitored along with his wife by doctors in ChicagoThe Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, and his wife have...
View ArticleRev Jesse Jackson and wife ‘responding positively’ to Covid treatment, says son
Civil rights leader and Jacqueline Jackson admitted to a Chicago hospital on SaturdayThe Rev Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline Jackson, remained under doctors’ observation at a Chicago hospital on...
View ArticleJesse Jackson released from hospital after falling and hitting head
Civil rights leader, 80, was at Howard University to help students protesting against poor living conditions on campusThe Rev Jesse Jackson was taken to hospital in Washington on Monday, after falling...
View ArticleAhmaud Arbery killing: judge rejects mistrial requests as Jesse Jackson attends
Defense claimed jurors were tainted by tears in gallery, where the reverend joined Arbery’s parentsA judge has denied mistrial requests at the trial of three white men charged with murdering Ahmaud...
View ArticleJesse Jackson calls for affirmative action to tackle white male supremacy in UK
Veteran civil rights leader, on last day of British tour, says women and minorities are being held backWomen and ethnic minorities are being held back by white male supremacy and affirmative action is...
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