By Jesse Jackson After mass shootings in Southaven, Mississippi; Dayton, Ohio; and Midland, El Paso and Odessa, Texas, public demand for sensible gun reform once more soared. And once more, … [Read more...]
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NFL’s Depression-Era Ban on Black Players Lingers on in the Owner’s Box
By Jesse Jackson The National Football League season opened last week with a full slate of games. On the field, extraordinary athletes of all races and backgrounds competed with the same set … [Read more...]
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Violent White Supremacists Threaten Basic Civil Rights — and our Lives
By Jesse Jackson Every right we have fought for and won since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his monumental “I Have a Dream” speech 56 years ago this Wednesday is under unrelenting attack … [Read more...]
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The Significance of the 1619 Project
By Jesse Jackson On Sunday, the New York Times unveiled “The 1619 Project,” a journalistic series in the Sunday magazine that seeks to tell the “unvarnished truth” about slavery and its impact … [Read more...]
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End Endless Conflict and Bring Peace to Korea
By Jesse Jackson July 27 marked the 66th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice, which brought an end to hostilities that killed nearly five million people, including almost … [Read more...]
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America’s Democracy Facing Multiple Threats
By Jesse Jackson Our democracy is in peril, but we the people can preserve it. The Senate Intelligence Committee last week startled the nation with a democracy shaking report entitled … [Read more...]
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South Carolina Heads Down a Dead-End Street in Rejecting Medicaid Expansion
By Jesse Jackson South Carolina’s James Louis Petigru was a Civil War-era lawyer, judge, congressman and most notably the attorney general who opposed South Carolina’s use of nullification of … [Read more...]
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‘Equal Pay, Equal Pay, Equal Pay’
By Jesse Jackson As the exhausted and thrilled U.S. women’s soccer team celebrated its victory in the finals of the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the cheers of the crowd in the Stade of Lyon soon … [Read more...]
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Trump Did the Right Thing
By Jesse Jackson In the last week, President Donald Trump suddenly reversed two major decisions. He announced he would not begin mass deportations of those who are living in the country … [Read more...]
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65 Years after Brown v. Board of Education, We Risk Going Backward
By Jesse Jackson This week marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous Supreme Court decision that outlawed apartheid in America, declaring segregated schools … [Read more...]
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