Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

Founder and President, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. On August 9, 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Reverend Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Aug- 2019 -

14 August

Op-Ed

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JESSE JACKSON: End Endless Conflict and Bring Peace to Korea

As a servant of God for civil rights and economic justice at home, and peace and human rights abroad, I…
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Jul- 2019 -

31 July

Op-Ed

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JESSE JACKSON: America’s Democracy Facing Multiple Threats

Our democracy is in peril, but we the people can preserve it.
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26 July

Columnists

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Jesse Jackson: South Carolina Heads Down a Dead-End Street in Rejecting Medicaid Expansion

South Carolina’s James Louis Petigru was a Civil War-era lawyer, judge, congressman and most notably the attorney general who opposed…
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17 July

Op-Ed

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JESSE JACKSON: ‘Equal Pay, Equal Pay, Equal Pay’

As the exhausted and thrilled U.S. women's soccer team celebrated its victory in the finals of the 2019 Women's World…
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Jun- 2019 -

26 June

Op-Ed

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JESSE JACKSON: Mobilizing the Poor People’s Campaign

Last week in Washington, the powers that be heard from a vital new democratic force in this country.
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24 June

Op-Ed

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JESSE JACKSON: Trump Did the Right Thing

In the past week, President Donald Trump suddenly reversed two major decisions. In both, the reversals may only be a…
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5 June

Op-Ed

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

The banks particularly prey on the vulnerable, regularly pleading guilty of discriminating against African Americans and Latinos.
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May- 2019 -

29 May

Op-Ed

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

Robert Smith's generous promise should goad all of us into action.
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22 May

Op-Ed

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

I share the concern for life that animates the most sincere opponents of abortion. I also agree that reproductive justice…
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15 May

Op-Ed

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

Today, the common sense of the Brown decision is under attack.
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