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Operation Push and the Rainbow Coalition plan a march in Peru, Illinois to pressure authorities to do more to investigate the death of ISU graduate student Jelani Day. But, not everything being said about the case is true. The Prairie City Soccer League is changing plans for new fields. They won't be in north Normal. A researcher speaking at ISU has a new way of tackling community health questions -- like, "Why aren't families physically active?" Darla Castelli talks about in...

Jesse Jackson Fast Facts Personal Birth place: Greenville, South Carolina Birth name: Jesse Louis Burns Father: Noah Robinson, cotton grader Mother: Helen (Burns) Jackson, hairdresser Marriage: Jacqueline Lavinia (Brown) Jackson (December 31, 1962-present) Children: with Karin Stanford: Ashley (May 1999); with Jacqueline: Jacqueline Jackson (September 2, 1975); Yusef (September 26, 1970); Jonathan (January 7, 1966); Jesse Jr. (March 11, 1965); Santita (July 16, 1963) Education: North Carolina A...

Local activist Rev. Acree traveling to DC for inauguration: What would Dr. King do? Local activist Rev. Acree traveling to DC for inauguration: ‘What would Dr. King do?’ America will pause and reflect Monday on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for MLK Day, and one local pastor is calling for peace as he heads to DC to push Kings message. CHICAGO - America will pause and reflect Monday on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for MLK Day, and one local pastor is calling for peace as h...

Watch. thats why these debates are interesting. you know, its like a plane fight. hours of boredom, punctuated by moments of sheer excitement and terror. thats what you saw yesterday. it was precise, it was personal and it was powerful. i think particularly i think he was probably pretty ready to take on the attack that, you know, he had done business with segregation senators. but when she made it about bussing and turned out -- i didnt know this and my guess is he didnt either, that she was bu...

Beheath the girl power platitudes and recruiting anita hill to write up a blueprint to end sexual harassment, this feels like another leftist hack group. like a political action committee. at the heart is a legal defense fund with a $13 million war chest that will be used to litigate sexual harassment claims. donors? to fund this. meryl streep, reese witherspoon and other hillary backers. like what jesse jackson used to do with operation push. the defense fund is led by tina chest. her only prev...

Beheath the girl power platitudes and recruiting anita hill to write up a blueprint to end sexual harassment, this feels like another leftist hack group. like a political action committee. at the heart is a legal defense fund with a $13 million war chest that will be used to litigate sexual harassment claims. donors? to fund this. meryl streep, reese witherspoon and other hillary backers. like what jesse jackson used to do with operation push. the defense fund is led by tina chest. her only prev...

I became politicized through my parents, through operation push, learning about divestment. but the first time i protested without my parents was at 14 to protest against the investment in south africa through british petroleum and was thrown out of the british petroleum office in cleveland, ohio. it was a great moment for myself, for my own agency and studying the words of nelson mandela and learning from my parents about what south africa meant to us as a community and how there was solidarity...