A girl from Chicago's Altgeld Gardens housing project talks about high school, murder and the long walk home
By Anonymous Oct 19, 2009
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The former president's trip may be successful in securing the release of two American journalists
By Vincent Rossmeier
August 4, 2009
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Jesse Jackson's face in the crowd at Obama's victory speech conveyed the emotion of the many struggles that led to this moment.
By Rebecca Traister
November 5, 2008
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Her failure to challenge Barack Obama's huge momentum among African-Americans -- not a given at the start -- may have doomed her campaign.
By Thomas F. Schaller
May 5, 2008
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The city has a unique history of launching the careers of powerful black politicians -- which is part of the reason Obama moved there.
By Edward McClelland
January 14, 2008
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Why did unnamed Obama supporters attack Al Sharpton? He's only asking questions that need to be answered.
By Debra Dickerson
March 19, 2007
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Jesse and Al explain where Barack charts.
By David Puner
February 12, 2007
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Lieberman's racially inflammatory strategy may backfire when people remember his history of pandering to Louis Farrakhan.
By Joe Conason
August 18, 2006
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Trying to force authorities to open an Air Force base as a shelter, Jesse Jackson and other black leaders picked up 150 evacuees at the squalid New Orleans Airport and headed into the night.
By Stephen Elliott
September 4, 2005
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Louisiana black leaders, along with Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson, want to take Katrina victims to a shuttered Air Force base instead of shelters. And I'm going with them.
By Stephen Elliott
September 3, 2005
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With his star turn in the Schiavo circus, Jackson provides political cover for Tom DeLay and the religious right.
By Tim Grieve
March 29, 2005
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Must Tiger Woods support every p.c. protest, no matter how
trivial, just because he's benefited from the
"struggles" of others?
By King Kaufman
November 27, 2002
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Eight-term mayor Sharpe James insists reformist rival Cory Booker isn't black enough to run this troubled city -- and Jesse Jackson plays along.
By Arianna Huffington
April 30, 2002
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When Jesse Jackson tried to turn pampered professors into racism victims, it showed a civil rights movement unready for a new age.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
January 5, 2002
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"Diplomacy sometimes takes a little longer than people would like," the president says. And the people who don't like it include many conservative allies.
By Daryl Lindsey
April 10, 2001
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After threatening to expatriate themselves if Bush won the election, most would-be celebrity defectors put the back pedal to the metal.
By Carina Chocano
January 25, 2001
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Why can't we accept the fact that great men conduct lives of indiscretion and excess?
By Benjamin Cheever
January 24, 2001
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According to studies of the animal world, most of us are naturally inclined to "cheat" or at least have more than one mate in a lifetime.
By David Barash
January 23, 2001
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The reverend can be forgiven for his affair because the flesh is weak. But so is his game -- why did he get caught?
By Jimi Izrael
January 19, 2001
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Jesse Jackson joins the club of powerful men whose private transgressions are inevitably exposed -- but at least he handles it with a little class.
By Joan Walsh
January 19, 2001
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Sometimes it is better to give than to receive.
By Carina Chocano
December 14, 2000
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Florida's controversial crusade to purge its voter rolls has revived an old partisan debate: Can states crack down on fraud without hurting eligible voters?
By Anthony York
December 8, 2000
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Conservatives and liberals alike love to bash him, but without the reverend's work in Florida, Gore wouldn't have had a prayer.
By Kevin Sweeney
December 1, 2000
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In which a befuddled Bush and a schizoid Gore do battle in a scene distressingly reminiscent of the most bilious days of imperial Rome.
By Camille Paglia
November 15, 2000
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A West Palm Beach rally for the enfranchisement of Democrats, and others.
By Jake Tapper
November 13, 2000
"Last year, the police Maced the whole hallway"
Bill Clinton to the rescue
America has cracked open
How Hillary Clinton botched the black vote
Chicago is Barack Obama's kind of town
Sympathy for the devil: Leave Rev. Al alone!
Weekend Update: "Blackness Scale"
Whatever's best for Holy Joe
Gimme shelter
"They've got to open the base"
Tiger's burden
Big babies at Harvard
I take it back
Let leaders lead
The myth of monogamy
Merry Christmas, Florida!
Eliminating fraud -- or Democrats?
Glenn Greenwald
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