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Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a civil rights activist was the founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the product of a merger of civil rights organizations in which Jackson was involved. Based on Chicago's South Side, Rainbow/PUSH helps to finance Jackson's progressive social movement, including marches and residents' discrimination and housing complaints. In 1971, Jackson founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) in Chicago to expand opportunities for the black population. In 1984, he founded the National Rainbow Coalition, a social justice organization based in Washington. The groups merged in 1996, with headquarters at 930 E. 50th St. Jackson twice ran for the Democratic presidentia...
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a civil rights activist was the founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the product of a merger of civil rights organizations in which Jackson was involved. Based on Chicago's South Side, Rainbow/PUSH helps to finance Jackson's progressive social movement, including marches and residents' discrimination and housing complaints. In 1971, Jackson founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) in Chicago to expand opportunities for the black population. In 1984, he founded the National Rainbow Coalition, a social justice organization based in Washington. The groups merged in 1996, with headquarters at 930 E. 50th St. Jackson twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination-in 1984 and 1988-raising the nation's political debate about economic and social justice for minorities and the disaffected. His son, Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., represents the 2nd Congressional District of Illinois.
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Rangel paid little interest on villa Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) paid no mortgage interest on a beach resort property for more than 10 years, a lawyer for the powerful House committee chairman said. The congressman's lawyer, Lanny Davis, said Rangel...Tags: Theft, Charles B. Rangel, Sexual Assault, Times Square, Apartments
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Jesse Jackson released from hospital
Chicago Tribune reportRev. Jesse Jackson Sr. was released from a Chicago hospital Friday morning, two days after being admitted with stomach problems after returning to Chicago from a voter registration event. Jackson was released late morning from Northwestern Memorial...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics
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Jesse Jackson hospitalized for stomach pains
Chicago Tribune reporterRev. Jesse Jackson was being treated Thursday in Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago after falling ill. Jackson told the Tribune during a morning telephone interview he had stomach pains, but the pains were subsiding. "I have high regard for...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics
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Rev. Jesse Jackson released from Chicago hospital
The Reverend Jesse Jackson has been released from a Chicago hospital, two days after he was admitted because of severe stomach pains. A spokeswoman for Jackson's civil rights organization, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, says Jackson was released from...Tags: Food Safety, Hospitals and Clinics, Civil Rights, Healthcare Policies
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McCain and family pack it in for charity
MINNEAPOLIS—Sen. John McCain and his family took a detour on the Straight Talk Express. First up Wednesday for the Republican nominee was a little volunteer work. McCain, his wife, Cindy, his mother, Roberta, and several of his children visited the...Tags: Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani
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New fumble for governor's million-dollar giveaway
Chicago Tribune reporterGov. Rod Blagojevich's mysterious decision to give $1 million to a politically connected private school hit another glitch Wednesday when city officials said new elementary classrooms built with the money were not fit for students. Hours after the...Tags: Corrupt Practices, Executive Branch, Tony Rezko, Values, Government
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Palin means 'It's Over': Peggy Noonan
The Swampby Frank James updated at 9:00 pm Peggy Noonan has written an explanation to her "It's over" comment which can be found on the Wall Street Journal site. Bottom line: she wasn't referring to Sen. John McCain's presidential aspirations......Tags: Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Elections, Executive Branch
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Recent Illinois Editorials
And no footsie. Please. We're as gob-smacked as the next disbelievers to see Illinois Democratic pols burst into an orgy of hugging at their delegation breakfast in Denver on Wednesday. To see U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. grip state Sen. Debbie...Tags: Dan Hynes, Executive Branch, Elections, Heads of State, Parties and Movements
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Clintons will wait it out
The night was praised as a merging of the seas, as Bill and Hillary Clinton led their party in a healing ritual of unity by anointing The One. And the Democrats did heal themselves. And Bill Clinton did pass the baton to Barack Obama. And Hillary and...Tags: The White House, John McCain, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton
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Officer loss
Ashton Haywood wrote a great letter, "Where's outrage?," Aug. 21, with reference to the murder of police Detective Michael Phillips, and there being an absence of outrage that is "normally expressed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Jesse Jackson and...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Al Sharpton
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Highlights
17 minutes Length of Barack Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Sound bite "This is a monumental moment in our nation's history. And it becomes obviously an even greater moment in November if he's elected." oldest son 38%...Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, National Government, Government, Rod Blagojevich
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Tuskegee pilot airborne again
martin.evans@newsday.comHe is 86 years old now, a little slower, a little grayer and perhaps a tad less sharp-eyed than he was on a fateful day in the skies over Berlin in March of 1945. But when the American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport invited Roscoe Brown to fly again...Tags: Barack Obama, Minority Groups, Labor Day, Republic Airport, Elections
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