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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.
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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.
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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.
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Originally published August 4, 2009
This exclusive second episode of “On The Road With Smokey Fontaine” lands our roving reporter at 2300 Jackson St. in Gary, Indiana, the childhood home of Michael Jackson and the Jacksons. Smokey talks to fans, local residents, Reverend Jesse Jackson and Gary mayor Rudy Clay Spacer about how a Midwestern industrial town could produce the greatest entertainer of all time.
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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.
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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.
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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 quadrupled, regardless of income bracket.
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Health, jobs, education are shared issues, civil rights leader tells Islamic gathering
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Journalist and author Roland Martin, senior analyst for “The Tom Joyner Morning Show,” will be named Broadcaster of the Year by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition at this week’s 10th Annual Creating Opportunity Conference in Atlanta.
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