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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 17, Issue 26)Disappointed is perhaps the best way to describe how I felt when I awoke to the news that Rev. Jesse Jackson had cheated on his wife and has fathered a 20-month-old daughter with a former employee and college professor....
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 39, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTOWARD A JEWISH COMPONENT OF THE RAINBOW COALITION What follows was inspired by the interchange between Vicente Navarro and Sheila Collins on the Rainbow Coalition (MR, June 1987) and the prominent role Jesse Jackson...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 39) Peer-ReviewedDear Sheila Collins: I have just read your book, The Rainhow Challenge: The Jackson Campaign and the Future of U.S. Politics (Monthly Review Press, 1987). What a treat! When I started reading it I could not stop. I...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 30, Issue 5)"We need a National Commission on College Affordability to review the rising costs of and the declining support for colleges and advanced training programs. It should recommend how the rise in college costs can be...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 19, Issue 7)SAN JOSE, CALIF. Addressing the third annual Rainbow/PUSH Silicon Valley Project conference, Microsoft Corporation chairman Bill Gates pledged to help bring digital technology to people regardless of their position...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedVicente Narvarro is Co-chair of the National Health LCommission of the National Rainbow Coalition. Thank you so much for writing "Lessons of the 1988 Election" (MR, February 1989. As usual, "The Review of the Month"...
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From:Journal of African American Studies (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama gave a Father's Day speech in which he called for fathers to actively participate in their family's lives. Obama's remarks were taken by civil rights leader Jesse Jackson to...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHISTORIC MOMENTS Comments on the day after Super Tuesday by John Lewis, Georgia Congressman and former SNCC leader, highlight one aspect of the historic monents through which we are living; To me, it is...
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From:Journal of African American Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Judson L. Jeffries 1, Omari L. Dyson 2 Author Affiliations: (1) grid.261331.4, 0000 0001 2285 7943, Department of African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University, , 43210, Columbus, Ohio,...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 40, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe political situation in the United States today, if one takes the trouble to look below the surface, is very strange indeed. The most important fact is that the country could easily produce at least 50 percent more...
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From:Radical Teacher (Issue 93) Peer-ReviewedAccording to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, student debt has increased from $80 billion in 1999 to $500 billion in 2011, a nearly sevenfold rise. The Department of Education has put outstanding student loans as...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 32, Issue 5)The cataloging of some audiotapes by a part-time librarian in 1997 is apparently all that has been done for a proposed Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Civil Rights Library, funded by three Illinois state grants and originally...
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From:American Journalism Review (Vol. 30, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWhen the Rev. Jesse Jackson said in July that he wanted to separate Barack Obama from his testicles--or, to be precise, "I want to cut his nuts off"--the incident was a brief campaign trail distraction. Jackson...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 18, Issue 5)ANN ARBOR, MICH. After a federal judge ordered the University of Michigan law school to stop using race in its admissions policies, the Rev. Jesse Jackson urged students at a campus rally to fight the ruling....
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 41, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBLACK POLITICS AND THE CHALLENGES FOR THE LEFT In the 1980s, there were two fundamental responses by African-Americans to the economic and social crisis generated by Reaganism. The first was represented at the local...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 7, Issue 3)IN HIS 1995 book Hot Air, Howard Kurtz wrote that "Imus' sexist, homophobic, and politically incorrect routines echo what many journalists joke about in private." Later, host Don Imus brought up McGuirk's prior...
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From:Ethnic Studies Review (Vol. 39) Peer-ReviewedAn Indigenous (1) paradigm is one lived from a deep understanding of the interrelatedness of all living beings, where the human being experiences (a) an innate connection with time in the form of planetary and celestial...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 12, Issue 2)Here's one thing we learned from the post-election Florida folderol: Black "leaders" can say anything, and the mainstream press will take it seriously. "This is a replay of Selma all over again," Jesse Jackson...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 38) Peer-ReviewedGRASSROOTS ORGANIZING AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY - THE VERMONT RAINBOW EXPERIENCE It wasn't big news in 1984 when Jesse Jackson got only 8 percent of the vote in Vermont's nonbinding presidential primary. By then, the...
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From:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 39, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOn January 18, The National Enquirer broke the story that Jesse Jackson had fathered a child out of wedlock, scooping the mainstream press. Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune is part of that mainstream press. Page, a...