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Reverend Jesse Jackson is in the hospital Sunday, recovering from an "operation," according to the Rainbow Push Coalition. Jackson was hospitalized Thursday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and has since undergone a successful operation, the coalition said.

Reverend Jesse Jackson is in the hospital Sunday, recovering from an "operation," according to the Rainbow Push Coalition.

How Jesse Jacksons Rainbow Coalition Championed Diversity In his 1984 presidential run, Jackson sought to unite a multiracial, multicultural group of Americans. Author: In his 1984 presidential run, Jackson sought to unite a multiracial, multicultural group of Americans. In November 1983, Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming only the second Black presidential candidate (after Shirley Chisholm in 1972) to compete at the national level. I...

The pandemic may have kept them apart for an annual tradition, but their faiths brought religious leaders together Friday for the 35th annual interfaith breakfast to commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For understandable reasons — remember the infamous Tuskegee experiments? — African Americans harbor suspicions about scientists and vaccines.

Rusten Sheskey for shooting Jacob Blake Jr. This decision upset many around the country and within the Blake family. "We expected it. We understood what was going to come when they called in [the] National Guard," Blake Jr.s father, Jacob Blake Sr., said. "There was no point in the video that is articulable for an officer to say that he was under harm at that particular point...I think thats completely bogus and I think that is just a rationalization to try to show what is really, essentially...

Rally Outside Chicago Police Headquarters Supports Anjanette Young At Sundays demonstration, local leaders and politicians called for full transparency into the wrongful raid on a Chicago social workers home Published December 27, 2020 • Updated on December 27, 2020 at 6:21 pm NBCUniversal Media, LLC Dozens gathered outside Chicago Police Department headquarters Sunday in support of Anjanette Young, a social worker whose home was wrongfully raided by Chicago police officers in Feb...

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) A couple of years ago, I was in the office of Attorney Janice Mathis, Executive Director of the Rainbow Push in Atlanta and saw this quote on the wall.  “I am but one, but I am one.  I can’t do everything, but I can do something.  What I can do.  What I ought to do, with God helping me, I will do.” After reading it... [Read more...] Tags:

Last week we told you about a lawsuit to reinstate over 200k Georgia voters before the January 5th run-off, which had been purged from the voter rolls in 2019. And that the judge, and Obama pick, would decide on the case soon. Well now we have his decision: 11ALIVE – A federal judge on Wednesday denied a lawsuit seeking to restore 200,000 people to Georgia’s voter rolls ahead of the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs, though he acknowledged “there may be discrepancies” in the records relied on to ca...