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Jesse Jackson stories: 32 news summaries

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THE REV. WHOEVER

MSNBC Host to Jesse Jackson: 'Hi, Al Sharpton' 

Reverend looks miffed after Contessa Brewer flubs his name

Oct 22, 09 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a stunningly awkward clip going viral as we speak, MSNBC host Contessa Brewer accidentally introduces guest Jesse Jackson as, “the Reverend Al Sharpton.” When Jackson gives the camera a priceless you-gotta-be-kidding-me glare and corrects her, Brewer hastily blames the script and apologizes, saying “I know who... More »

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Jesse Jackson • Al Sharpton • MSNBC • Contessa Brewer

Dazed Astor Didn't Recognize Jesse Jackson: Witness 

Her son also convinced her she was going broke

Apr 29, 09 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - A decade before her death, Brooke Astor was so out of it that she couldn’t recognize Jesse Jackson, a prosecution witness testified today in the fraud trial against Astor’s son, the New York Daily News reports. Anthony Marshall’s defense rides on his mother’s mental state, with... More »

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fraud • Jesse Jackson • crime • New York • Manhattan • theft • will • charity • inheritance • Brooke Astor • Anthony Marshall

Jackson Hopes to Win Journo's Release

Saberi's 1st interview subject requests visa for travel to Iran

Apr 22, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson has filed for an Iranian visa and is hoping to make a diplomatic trip as a “free agent” to argue for the release of Roxana Saberi, the Malaysia Star reports. The veteran civil rights activist says he was Saberi's first interview subject when she was a journalism... More »

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Iran • Jesse Jackson • espionage • reporter • journalist • Rainbow Coalition • Roxana Saberi

Tehran Judge Echoes Call for 'Fair' Saberi Trial

Iran minister chides Obama for not knowing details of closed trial

Apr 20, 09 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - The head of Iran’s judiciary issued a statement today requesting that Roxana Saberi’s appeal “should be fairly, accurately, and quickly considered.” It’s not clear whether Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi means Saberi’s appeal will be successful, or if he merely wants to stress to international... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Jesse Jackson • espionage • appeal • court cases • President Obama • Roxana Saberi • Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi

 The Real Michelle Obama 

Michelle Obama Says It's All In The Family

Feb 1, 09 7:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Michelle Obama's journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House has been avidly documented, but Carol Felsenthal of Chicago magazine highlights the consistency of her role, driven by a burning desire to do good, but also to achieve security for her family. She resisted her husband's political... More »

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Barack Obama • Jesse Jackson • Michelle Obama • White House • Election 2008 • Obama administration • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • Marian Robinson

OPINION

 Jesse's Face Spoke for Millions 

Jesse Jackson's tears expressed so many possible thoughts

Nov 5, 08 1:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Not long after the networks declared Barack Obama the next American president, writes Rebecca Traister in Salon, the years worth of emotions that led up to that moment flashed across the face of Jesse Jackson. In minutes, the civil rights leader's expression transformed from a still one of disbelief, (or... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Jesse Jackson • African Americans • first families • Election 2008 • civil rights movement • President Obama

Stomach Pain Lands Jesse Jackson in Hospital

Chicago docs suspect viral gastroenteritis

Sep 4, 08 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson is being treated in a Chicago hospital today, after being admitted last night with stomach pains, the Tribune reports. Jackson began to feel ill earlier this week, while campaigning for Barack Obama in Georgia. Doctors believe he has viral gastroenteritis, but are conducting more tests. “I have... More »

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Jesse Jackson • hospital • stomach problems • stomach

 Kennedy Speech
 Among 5 Things
 to See at DNC

Watch for Clinton supporters, Jesse Jackson

Aug 25, 08 5:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Here's what to watch at the Democratic National Convention tonight, Politico reports:
  1. Ted Kennedy, still recovering from surgery, "is definitely speaking tonight," one Dem said, and plans a memorable torch-passing to Barack Obama.
  2. Michelle Obama will try to sell herself as a strong but inoffensive first
... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Jesse Jackson • Michelle Obama • Democratic National Convention • Ted Kennedy • DNC

Jesse Jackson Jr.: Obama's Like Jackie Robinson

Candidate has to endure jeers with a smile, can't strike back

Aug 25, 08 3:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama is like Jackie Robinson: he’s got to perform despite racist taunts, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., son of the civil-rights leader, said during a Politico-sponsored panel discussion today ahead of the Democratic convention. Like the baseball pioneer, Obama “has to keep smiling,” in the face of... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Jesse Jackson • Jackie Robinson • Democratic National Convention • baseball • Jesse Jackson Jr. • African-Americans

 Tears Fall, Jokes Fly
 at Mac Memorial

He's still the hottest ticket in town, Cedric the Entertainer jokes

Aug 16, 08 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of fans showed up to honor Bernie Mac today in a memorial service on Chicago's South Side, the Chicago Tribune reports. “He’s still the hottest ticket in town,” said Cedric the Entertainer, who spoke with the rest of Mac’s “Original Kings of Comedy" team—... More »

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Jesse Jackson • celebrity • funeral • memorial service • Bernie Mac

OPINION

Move Over Jesse, This Is Obama's House

The rev hates Barack because he represents the 'anti-Jackson'

Jul 22, 08 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - If threats of castration are any indication, Barack Obama has gotten under Jesse Jackson's skin, writes Shelby Steele in the Wall Street Journal. The Illinois senator has eclipsed the reverend by effectively becoming the anti-Jackson—rather than playing off moral leverage created out of white guilt, Obama "became the... More »

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Barack Obama • Jesse Jackson • African Americans • race relations • white guilt

Fox: Jackson Used N-Word
in Off-Air Obama Comments

Jesse apologizes, again, to frontrunner

Jul 17, 08 4:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Red-faced civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has again had to apologize to the nation's first black presidential candidate, this time over his use of a racial slur in off-air comments during the taping of a FOX show, reports AP. Fox News confirmed that Jackson said Obama is "talking down... More »

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Barack Obama • Jesse Jackson • Al Sharpton • gaffe • racial slurs

ANALYSIS

 Did Jackson Vent for Many? 

Jackson's crude remarks highlight frustration over apparent shift right

Jul 11, 08 10:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson is catching plenty of flak for his "cutting" remarks about Barack Obama, but he is unlikely to be the only one feeling some frustration with the candidate, writes Suzanne Goldenberg in the Guardian. Many supporters are angry Obama appears to be shifting to the right as he... More »

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Barack Obama • Jesse Jackson • African Americans • black community

What Jackson Problem?
Waning Clout Signals Shift

Obama, younger generation seem little concerned with fallout

Jul 11, 08 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Once, Democrats worried about “the Jesse Jackson problem,” the fear that rebuke from Jackson would cost them black voters. But now, some Democrats are saying that Jackson’s latest criticisms of Barack Obama may actually help the Illinois senator, the New York Times reports, both with white voters... More »

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Barack Obama • Jesse Jackson • race relations • black culture • black voters

updated

Jesse Jr.
Scolds Dad for 'Ugly Rhetoric'

Jackson's son rejects his father's 'divisive' Obama comments

Jul 9, 08 6:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson is taking heat for his admittedly "crude and hurtful" comments about Barack Obama, and his own son is leading the charge. "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed," said Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. Jackson called his father's remarks—in which he said he wanted to cut... More »

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Barack Obama • Jesse Jackson • black culture • apology • Jesse Jackson Jr.

Jesse Jackson Apologizes
for Unknown Obama Slur

Mic caught stray insult; Hannity to air it tonight

Jul 9, 08 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson apologized profusely to Barack Obama for a comment to be aired later tonight on Fox, saying that a microphone caught a “crude and hurtful” quip that he meant to make in private. CNN did not reveal what the comment was, but Jackson said he had been criticizing... More »

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Barack Obama • Jesse Jackson • Fox • apology • Sean Hannity

Jesse Jackson Hails Obama Victory

Civil rights leader calls win 'transformational' moment in history

Jun 4, 08 4:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson praised Barack Obama's key victory last night as a "transformational moment" in American history, Reuters reports. "We knew this breakthrough was possible—we didn't know when or who," said the two-time presidential candidate, emphasizing the remarkable 53-year journey of African-Americans from a Mississippi lynching in... More »

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Barack Obama • Jesse Jackson • Democratic presidential candidates • Democratic nomination

Secret Service Bosses Shared Racist Jokes

Emails ridicule blacks, joke about Jackson assassination

May 10, 08 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Secret Service supervisors exchanged racist remarks in emails made public yesterday in a lawsuit filed by black agents, the New York Times reports. The messages were shared between at least 20 top agents between 2003 and 2005. One anecdote jokes about assassinating Jesse Jackson. And, according to the lawsuit, the... More »

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Jesse Jackson • email • Secret Service • discrimination • racism • racist

 Jackson Recalls MLK,
 Targets Urban Youth 

New initiative launched at site of King's final speech

Apr 4, 08 11:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson was outside the Lorraine Motel when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, 40 years ago today, and the sound of the gunshot still echoes in his memory. Jackson talks with the Chicago Sun-Times about that day, and how race relations have "detoxified"  in the ensuing years.... More »

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Jesse Jackson • Al Sharpton • race relations • assassination • Martin Luther King Jr. • civil rights movement

OPINION

 King Would Relish 
 Today's Challenges 

40 years after civil-rights leader's death, Jesse Jackson finds message undimmed

Apr 3, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - With tomorrow marking the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, the Rev. Jesse Jackson pens an appreciation for the New York Daily News. Jackson worked with the civil-rights giant in 1968 on King's last, tragically unfulfilled project, the Poor People’s Campaign. "He'd keep on dreaming and... More »

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education • race • Jesse Jackson • African Americans • assassination • Martin Luther King Jr. • health care reform

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