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Rev. Jesse Jackson
Jackson plays a major role in virtually every U.S. movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality and social justice. As one of America's foremost political activists, he challenges America to establish just and humane practices that bring people together across lines of race, class, gender and creed.
Rev. Jesse Jackson Samples
See through the blight
Without vision, the Bible teaches, the people perish. Each week in Chicago, we witness more pain. The pain is recycled and more get hurt. In the pain, we start turning on each other. The supposed recovery hasn't reached the people.
The real scandal
Washington is descending into another silly season. Meanwhile, the real scandals -- like that of children in poverty -- are simply ignored.
Free students from debtor's prison
The student loan burden is reaching crisis proportions. Student loan debt now is about $1 trillion dollars. These are the young people who've done everything we told them to do. Student debt is itself a huge obstacle to the recovery.
From the bottom up
The April jobs report has been hailed as good news by the nation's newspapers. Washington would rather sell optimism. But more than 20 million people are still in need of full-time work. People of color are particularly struggling.
Sequester blues
When the sequester federal spending cuts forced flight delays because of the furlough of air traffic controllers, the normally deadlocked Congress acted in less than a week to give the Federal Aviation Administration flexibility to avoid the furlo...
Boston's miracle; Chicago's shame
As this is written, everyone wounded in the terror bombings at the Boston Marathon has survived his or her wounds.
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