JESSE JACKSON

The Rev. Al Sharpton has been called a lot of names in his public life.

The Iowa caucuses and their outsize importance have largely been an exercise in myth-making.

Three congressional districts are connected by a lack of incumbents but still offer a study in contrasts.

Bishop Tavis Grant has worn many hats while in Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. But this month he was appointed the one title he hadn't worn: acting national executive director of Rainbow/PUSH.

Gamble Jam, “Pippin,” at the Daytona Playhouse, Picasso, Niebuhr and Jesse Jackson react to men walking on the moon.

A Sesame Street-themed park has announced the implementation of diversity and inclusion training for its employees.

Two of Congress’ staunchest conservatives repelled more centrist challengers to lock up Republican nominations on Tuesday.

Seven states are set to host primary elections Tuesday as the nation comes to terms with last week’s stunning Supreme Court ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.

On the eve of Juneteenth, the Tribeca Festival came to a close with the Rev_ Al Sharpton documentary “Loudmouth.”.

Two-time presidential contender endorsing Delia Ramirez and Jonathan Jackson for Congress.

Iowa was Barack Obama’s unlikely launching pad in 2008 to become the nation’s first Black president.

Jussie Smollett is returning to a Chicago courtroom for sentencing with just two questions hanging over his head: Will he admit that he lied about a racist homophobic attack and will a judge send him to jail.

During a commemoration of the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Elliott Smith's great-aunt pushed him across the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in a stroller.

Biden First lady Jill Biden wears a mask with a sunflower, the national flower of Ukraine, in support of the Ukrainian people at an event to celebrate Black History Month in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (Patrick Semansky)WASHINGTON — (AP) — President Joe Biden welcomed Black leaders to the White House Monday for a jovial Black History Month celebration, where he called on Congress to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, and pass voting rights bills. Members of Biden's Cabinet who are Black and other administration officials stood on stage as Biden called on them by name to express his gratitude. “Black History Month was established to teach the history that too often has not been taught - the history of black excellence and leadership in America," Harris said. “Black history is American history.

President Joe Biden welcomed Black leaders to the White House Monday for a jovial Black History Month celebration, where he used the moment to call on Congress to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, and pass voting rights bills.

Before Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor and other Black people died at the hands of white police officers or self-appointed vigilantes, there was Martin Lee Anderson.

The NAACP is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to bring federal civil rights charges against the white Chicago police officer who fatally shot Black teenager Laquan McDonald.

Black voters lament another trip on a familiar carousel: a politician promises them a seat at the table but doesn't provide it.

Martin Luther King III came to Arizona with harsh words for Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, whose refusal to change filibuster rules makes voting rights legislation unlikely to pass in the Senate.

The leader of the Chicago Teachers Union is blaming the city’s mayor for a continued standoff over COVID-19 protocols.

As Jussie Smollett fights criminal charges that he lied to Chicago police about being the victim of an anti-gay, racist attack, his supporters are also working on a broader strategy: Ensuring the 39-year-old emerges from the scandal with his reputation and career intact, whatever the outcome of the trial.

Kenosha Protest Shootings Reaction The Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, marches with hundreds at Federal Plaza in the Loop in Chicago on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021, to protest the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, in Kenosha, Wis. Rittenhouse killed two people and injured another during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin last year. Jesse Jackson is scheduled to join his Rainbow PUSH Coalition and other groups on a march in Kenosha on Sunday afternoon to demand criminal justice reform following the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse, a white 17-year-old, traveled to Kenosha from his home in Antioch, Illinois, armed with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle during a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. ___Find AP's full coverage on the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse at: https://apnews.com/hub/kyle-rittenhouseCopyright 2021 The Associated Press.

Several dozen people gathered below the wind-whipped Wisconsin flag at Kenosha’s Civic Center Park and warmed up with chants for justice before taking to the streets in protest of the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.

The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery took the witness stand to tell jurors he pulled the trigger fearing for his own life.

A defense attorney in the murder trial over Ahmaud Arbery's death is likening a large courthouse rally supporting the slain Black man's family to a “public lynching” of the white defendants.

When a defense attorney in the trial of three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery called for Black pastors to be barred from the courtroom, shock and outrage rippled across the country.

Hundreds of pastors are rallying at the Georgia courthouse where three white men are on trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

Prosecutors have rested their case in the trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery as the Black man ran in their neighborhood.

Defense attorney Kevin Gough asked the judge to make the civil rights leader leave to avoid unfairly influencing the jury.

Police are investigating after a teenager's body was found near a dumpster on the campus of Independence High School in Glendale.

Their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan joined the chase and took cellphone video of Travis McMichael shooting Arbery three times with a shotgun. Tensions flared in the courtroom Monday morning soon after Jackson sat in the back row of the courtroom between Arbery's parents. Defense attorney Kevin Gough asked the judge to make the civil rights leader leave to avoid unfairly influencing the jury. The video shows Travis McMichael confronting Arbery and then shooting him as he throws punches and grapples for the gun. The defense says Travis McMichael opened fire in self-defense.

Their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan joined the chase and took cellphone video of Travis McMichael shooting Arbery three times with a shotgun. Tensions flared in the courtroom Monday morning soon after Jackson sat in the back row of the courtroom between Arbery's parents. Gough told the judge Thursday “we don’t want any more Black pastors coming in here." The video shows Travis McMichael confronting Arbery and then shooting him as he throws punches and grapples for the gun. The defense says Travis McMichael opened fire in self-defense.

A judge denied mistrial requests on Monday at the trial of three white men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery after defense attorneys claimed jurors were tainted by weeping from the gallery where the slain Black man's parents sat with the Rev. Jesse Jackson. The judge said he found one defense lawyer's complaints last week about Black pastors to be “reprehensible,” and that no group would be excluded from his courtroom. Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael armed themselves and pursued the 25-year-old Black man in a pickup truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood on Feb. 23, 2020.

The statement said a CT scan and other tests "came back normal."

The 80-year-old Chicago civil rights leader was entering a Howard University campus building when he fell and hit his head, according to Jackson spokesman Frank Watkins.

The statement said a CT scan and other tests "came back normal."

Activists from around Illinois, including Rev. Jesse Jackson, gathered to call attention to the death of Illinois State University student Jelani Day. Day went missing Aug. 24 in Bloomington, and his body was discovered on Sept. 4 in Peru, Illinois.

(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) (Rogelio V. Solis)CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s coronavirus vaccination figures have been adjusted sharply lower after officials discovered that numbers from a federal contractor had been double counted. The state’s figures kept the percentage of those 12 and older who are fully vaccinated at 60.1%. About 64% of Utah residents ages 12 and older were fully vaccinated as of Tuesday. About 182 million Americans are fully vaccinated, nearly 55% of the total population. But the fine print on who was considered “fully vaccinated” is proving far more complicated.

___CHICAGO — United Airlines officials say 97% of its U.S. employees are fully vaccinated. Arizona’s pandemic totals have reached 1.07 million cases and 19,658 confirmed deaths. ___WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden says the U.S. is doubling its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world. But the fine print on who was considered “fully vaccinated” is proving far more complicated. The most coronavirus cases were seen in the U.S., India, Britain, Turkey and the Philippines.

Jackson spent nearly a month in treatment.

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Evan Vucci)CHICAGO — United Airlines officials say 97% of its U.S. employees are fully vaccinated. ___WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden says the U.S. is doubling its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world. But the fine print on who was considered “fully vaccinated” is proving far more complicated. More than 90% of the unvaccinated inmates wound up being infected, as did 70% of the fully vaccinated prisoners. It echoes research into a July outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where several hundred people were infected — about three-quarters of whom were fully vaccinated.

The new exhibit at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks to start a new conversation about American fashion, says its curator, Andrew Bolton.

Monica Iken was married just 11 months when her husband, Michael, died at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Steve Hartman talks with Iken about the course of her life 20 years after that fateful day, becoming a vocal proponent for a memorial on the site of Ground Zero.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Aug. 21 with COVID-19, has moved to a rehabilitation center as his symptoms abate, while his wife, Jacqueline, has been moved into the intensive care unit at the hospital, according to their son Jonathan Jackson.

"I'm doing fairly well," Jackson told reporters Tuesday.

"I'm doing fairly well," Jackson told reporters Tuesday.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson has been transferred to a hospital focused on physical rehabilitation after receiving treatment for a breakthrough COVID-19 infection while his wife, Jacqueline, has been moved to an intensive care unit, according to a family statement released Friday. Jonathan Jackson, one of the couple’s five children, said that his father's COVID-19 symptoms are abating. Jackson has Parkinson's disease and Jonathan Jackson said he will receive “intensive occupational and physical therapy” at The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he's “doing fairly well” and receiving good care for COVID-19 at Chicago hospital.

Their son, Jonathan Jackson, said both were "resting comfortably and are responding positively to their treatments."

Hawaii’s governor is urging residents and potential visitors to limit travel to the islands to essential business while the state struggles to control outbreaks of the delta variant of the coronavirus.

Troy Nehls of Texas says that he’s tested positive for COVID-19 and has moderate symptoms. 3 Pacific nations try diverging paths— U.S. mask, vaccine conflicts descend into violence and harassment— Pandemic fiction: Fall books include stories of the virus— The Rev. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says he wouldn’t be surprised if the Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine comes soon and he expects that it will spur more vaccine mandates by schools and businesses. Greg Abbott says he has tested negative for COVID-19 just four days after testing positive. ___PARIS — Thousands of protesters marched again in cities and towns across France against a COVID-19 health pass required to enter restaurants and cafes, cultural and sports venues.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, and his wife, Jacqueline, remain under doctors’ observation at a Chicago hospital and are “responding positively to treatments” for COVID-19.

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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says he wouldn’t be surprised if the Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine comes soon and he expects that it will spur more vaccine mandates by schools and businesses. Abbott, who was vaccinated in December, has refused calls to reinstate mask mandates as the highly contagious delta variant surges in Texas. The current wave of infections is Iran’s fifth of the pandemic and fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. “With the delta variant, the old rules just don’t work,” he said. ___PARIS — Thousands of protesters marched again in cities and towns across France against a COVID-19 health pass required to enter restaurants and cafes, cultural and sports venues.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says he wouldn’t be surprised if the Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine comes soon and he expects that it will spur more vaccine mandates by schools and businesses. Abbott, who was vaccinated in December, has refused calls to reinstate mask mandates as the highly contagious delta variant surges in Texas. The current wave of infections is Iran’s fifth of the pandemic and fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. “With the delta variant, the old rules just don’t work,” he said. ___PARIS — Thousands of protesters marched again in cities and towns across France against a COVID-19 health pass required to enter restaurants and cafes, cultural and sports venues.

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Iran's previous daily record for COVID-19 deaths was recorded Aug. 16. The current wave of infections is Iran's fifth of the pandemic and fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. “With the delta variant, the old rules just don’t work,” he said. Valentine had been a skeptic of coronavirus vaccines. Despite having been diagnosed for Parkinson’s disease, he has remained active and has advocated for COVID-19 vaccines for Black people, who lag behind white people in the United States’ vaccination drive.

The school superintendent in Florida’s capital city says masks will be required for students in prekindergarten through eighth grade, becoming the seventh district to defy Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on such COVID-19 mandates.

Jackson was vaccinated in January, and had encouraged other elderly people to get their shots.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, 79, and his wife, Jacqueline, 77, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement Saturday.

Jesse Jackson, 79, and his wife, Jacqueline, 77, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement Saturday. Jesse Jackson, a famed civil rights leader, is vaccinated against the virus and received his first dose in January during a publicized event as he urged others to vaccinate as soon as possible. “Doctors are currently monitoring the condition of both,” according to the statement authorized by their son, Jonathan Jackson. Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson was key in guiding the modern civil rights movement on numerous issues, including voting rights. Jackson has remained active, most recently advocating for COVID-19 vaccines for Black people, who lag behind white people in the United States’ vaccination drive.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a famed civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, and his wife have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement Saturday. Jesse Jackson, 79, is vaccinated against the virus and received his first dose in January during a publicized event as he urged others to receive the inoculation as soon as possible. “Doctors are currently monitoring the condition of both,” according to the statement from Jesse Jackson's nonprofit, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.

Jesse Jackson and William Barber were among 35 people arrested Monday for refusing to leave the Phoenix office of Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who has faced unrelenting pressure from liberal activists over her opposition to ending the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. Passing voting-rights legislation is a top priority for congressional Democrats and the party's activists, who say it's essential to push back against state-level efforts by Republicans to impose new restrictions on voting. It's been stymied by the filibuster, which prevents Democrats from passing most legislation without Republican support. Sinema is among moderate Democratic senators who have ruled out changes to the filibuster, which she says encourages bipartisan cooperation and more lasting legislative compromises. Sinema supports the voting-rights legislation, but critics say her support is hollow if she stands in the way of procedural changes that would actually allow it to be enacted.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was among several dozen people arrested for refusing to leave the Phoenix office of Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

Civil rights leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and William Barber, were among 39 people arrested Monday after refusing to leave the Phoenix office of Democratic U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who has faced unrelenting pressure from liberal activists over her opposition to ending the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. Passing voting rights legislation is a top priority for congressional Democrats and progressive activists, who say it’s essential to push back against state-level efforts by Republicans to impose new restrictions on voting.

France Jesse Jackson French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Reverend Jesse Jackson raise their hands after Jackson was awarded with the Legion d'Honneur (Officer of the Legion of Honor) medal during a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, July 19, 2021. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP) (Ludovic Marin)PARIS — (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday made American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson a commander of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest award, for helping “change the destiny of the United States” and with it, the world. The civil rights leader has remained active despite his health problems. Last month, Jackson he was arrested and ticketed for obstructing traffic during a voting rights demonstration near the U.S. Capitol. Macron described the world of “institutionalized inequality” that Jackson grew up in and that shaped his future as a civil rights leader.

French President Emmanuel Macron has made American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson a commander of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest award.

A year after Rep. John Lewis' death a cadre of activists carry the late civil rights icon's legacy amid the most divisive voting rights debate in decades.

In Questlove's documentary “Summer of Soul” a musical flood, too long dammed up, is finally released.

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The war on ballot initiatives, another swing state effort to probe the last election, and a new and convincing history of the 2020 Democratic primary.

Many Americans reacted with jubilation but also with deep awareness of the progress left to be made after a jury convicted former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin of murder in the killing of George Floyd.

Dr. Rita McGuire, an obstetrician and infection control specialist at Roseland Community Hospital talks Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, with staff members about taking the COVID-19 vaccine. "It’s not something that I trust right now,’’ says Bland, 50, who worries about how quickly the COVID-19 vaccines were developed. Many holdouts come from the mostly Black, working class neighborhoods surrounding the hospital, areas hard hit by the virus yet plagued with vaccine reluctance. She acknowledged "centuries of medical injustice’’ against Black Americans but said COVID-19 vaccines resulted from years of solid research. Many workers ‘’have not forgotten about those studies where they used us as experiments,’’ McGuire said, including the infamous Tuskegee research on Black patients with syphilis.

Jackson has been released to a Chicago physical therapy center following gallbladder surgery and medical observation, a spokesman said Sunday, Feb. 7. Jesse Jackson has been released to a Chicago physical therapy center following gallbladder surgery and medical observation, a spokesman said Sunday. Jackson's longtime spokesman Frank Watkins confirmed Sunday it was gallbladder surgery. Jackson is continuing his civil rights and organizational work and is in high spirits,” the organization's statement said. Martin Luther King, Jackson was key in guiding the modern civil rights movement on numerous issues, including voting rights.

The film will debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. (Sundance Film Festival via AP)Sundance Institute programs. Known as “Black Woodstock,” the festival occurred during the same summer as Woodstock — and just 100 miles away — but received far less attention. It debuted Thursday night at the Sundance Film Festival where it spawned immediate acclaim and countless at-home dance parties for virtual festivalgoers — a party Questlove extended with a live-streamed after-party DJ set. Morris Park for a celebration of soul, gospel, funk and, most of all of Black identity at a pivotal point in African American culture.

Five days before Election Day, the families of victims killed in high-profile cases of police violence are banding together for a voting rally. The families of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Alvin Cole and Jacob Blake will join forces Thursday to encourage residents to vote like their lives depend on it. The event's main goal was to "unite a community in action," according to a press release announcing the rally. Taylor, Floyd and Cole were all killed by police officers earlier this year. We've been crying, we've been protesting, we've been in the courts.

The advocacy organization released a report detailing voting access for jail inmates with Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a civil rights advocacy group formed by the Rev. The advocacy organization released a report detailing voting access for jail inmates with Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a civil rights advocacy group formed by the Rev. “The way to avoid that is to not get arrested or get sentenced to jail.”Efforts to increase voting access for incarcerated people aren't new. A 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision upheld the voting rights of some incarcerated people without government interference, though some lower courts have allowed more restrictive absentee voting deadlines for detainees in some states. In March, the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois became one of the first in the nation to operate as a jail polling station.

Jesse Jackson asks a crowd for donations to the advertising fund to stop Proposition 209 during a rally in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. The U.S. Supreme Court has long outlawed racial quotas, but it has ruled that universities may use tailored programs to promote diversity. Opponents include Ward Connerly, an African American businessman and former University of California regent who pushed for the 1996 ban. They say government should never discriminate by race or gender, and the only way to stop discrimination is to end it. The numbers of Latino and Asian American residents — and voters — have grown, although likely voters are still disproportionately white.

Greg Drumwright, a minister at the Citadel Church & Campus Ministries, helped organize a group of Black fans to attend the NASCAR race at Talladega and support driver Bubba Wallace. We want to see that the call for diversification and true equity in the sport extends beyond the banning of the Confederate flag, Drumwright said. The group was about two dozen strong but only one had been to a NASCAR race before. We were there to stand with Bubba but what we learned through the media coverage is that it seems as if were standing with NASCAR, Drumwright said. Theres a willingness to listen and engage that NASCAR has that I dont believe they were sincere about earlier, said Bill Lester, one of at least seven other Black NASCAR drivers before Wallace.

The 2020 Black National Convention will take place Aug. 28 via a live broadcast. The first-ever Black Lives Matter convention was held in Cleveland in 2015. Convention organizers said this years event will pay tribute to the historic 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, which concluded with the introduction of a national Black agenda. Somewhat similarly, the Vision for Black Lives platform and its characterization of Israel as an apartheid state committing mass murder against Palestinian people drew allegations of anti-Semitism from a handful of Jewish groups, which had otherwise been supportive the Black Lives Matter movement. We dont just say Black lives matter and beg people to care.

But some black leaders say Warren's progressive politics, economic populism and specific policy proposals addressing everything from maternal mortality to the coronavirus could put her in a strong position. But some black leaders say Warren's progressive politics, economic populism and specific policy proposals addressing everything from maternal mortality to the coronavirus could put her in a strong position. She gave a memorable speech in Atlanta in November on empowering black women and combating institutional racism that some African American leaders laud as prescient. I think that she could be an interesting and compelling pick for Vice President Biden in regards to reaching out to African American voters, Garvin said. Some 61% of African American voters supported Biden, according to AP VoteCast surveys in 17 states that voted between Feb. 3 and March 17.

Addressing an African-American advocacy group in Chicago, Biden defended his record, saying he had a lifetime commitment to civil rights. We all know that 30 seconds to 60 seconds on a campaign debate exchange cant do justice to a lifetime commitment to civil rights, Biden said. Biden campaign officials publicly and privately downplayed the flap with Harris as an example of a trailing candidate trying to draw attention. The polling gap between Biden and Harris was immense going into the debate. And he has led in every early voting state.

Addressing an African-American advocacy group in Chicago, Biden defended his record, saying he had a lifetime commitment to civil rights. We all know that 30 seconds to 60 seconds on a campaign debate exchange cant do justice to a lifetime commitment to civil rights, Biden said. Biden campaign officials publicly and privately downplayed the flap with Harris as an example of a trailing candidate trying to draw attention. The polling gap between Biden and Harris was immense going into the debate. And he has led in every early voting state.

Reverend and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson joins CBSN with reaction to the controversy surrounding the Democratic National Convention.

Ahead of the South Carolina primary, democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are both trying to win over black voters. Reverend Jesse Jackson tells CBSN's Contessa Brewer that Hillary Clinton needs to sharpen her focus on the future to effectively take on the Bernie Sanders' "crusade." Watch the interview.