Jesse Jackson

Black leadership is dead. There, I said it. We have people in leadership positions, but far too many of them are operating as if it were the 1960s or even the 1980s instead of the twenty-first century. As I’ve traveled from state to state over the years, I’ve heard folks saying that “we need another […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton sought Wednesday to steer attention away from an NAACP resolution condemning racism within the tea party movement, saying focus should remain on jobs and an upcoming march in Washington.

Mel Gibson is not the first celebrity caught on tape going crazy and he won’t be the last. Most celebrities aren’t as nice as they seem on TV and a lot of them have issues regarding sex, race and alcohol.

if put in Dan Gilbert's position, many of us would have made Dan Gilbert's play.

From FoxSports.com // I could pretend Jesse Jackson speaks for such a tiny minority that his inflammatory, predictable and misguided remarks about LeBron James and Dan Gilbert are unworthy of rebuke.

From the Chicago Sun-Times: The Rev. Jesse Jackson says the Gulf Coast oil spill is a result of the federal government’s weak enforcement of the nation’s environmental laws.

From the Huffington Post: By Jesse Jackson The BP oil disaster in the Gulf Coast is now the most massive spill in world history. The negative impact of oil refining operations is being felt not just along the Gulf Coast, but right next door in Whiting, Indiana as well.

From the Huffington Post: A new study released by the Institute on Assets and Social Policy revealed that even when African-Americans had a good education and well-paying jobs, they could not achieve the wealth of their white peers in the workforce. As a result the wealth disparity between white and black households has more than […]

From MSNBC: DAKAR – Senegal’s monument to the “African Renaissance” will be formally unveiled before foreign dignitaries and celebrities on Saturday.