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Sanders seeking Black support seen as Hillary Clinton’s base

SUMTER, S.C. (AP) _ The Bernie Sanders phenomenon has been driven almost entirely by White supporters. Now the Vermont senator is out to overcome hurdles…

A Call For Expansion of Emmett Till Act

National Human Rights Leader Alvin Sykes Calls For Expansion of Emmett Till Act  Kansas City Human Rights Activist Alvin Sykes,  along with the late Mamie…

‘Amazing Grace’…Obama delivers passionate race lecture at eulogy

 CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama delivered a passionate discourse on America’s racial history Friday in his eulogy for a state senator and pastor,…

Jesse Jackson Jr. released from halfway house in Baltimore

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. returned to his family’s Washington, D.C., home on Monday after leaving a halfway house where he…

Better Pay Comes When We Demand It

Los Angeles just voted to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. The nation’s second-biggest city joins Seattle, San Francisco and little…

Jesse Jackson Jr. prison release set for Thursday

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A friend and former House colleague of Jesse Jackson Jr. says Jackson is being released from a federal prison Thursday and…

‘Godmother’ Rev. Willie Barrow, front-line civil rights fighter, dies

CHICAGO (AP) – The Rev. Willie Barrow, a front-line civil rights fighter for decades and a mentor to younger generations of activists, died Thursday in…

Jackson blasted by Black conservatives for racial Ebola comments

Some Black Americans have hinted at or in some cases, such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, have come out and said deceased Ebola patient Thomas Eric…

Jesse Jackson’s commentary on concussions and domestic violence

Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League, by his own analysis has received justifiable criticism for the NFL’s incoherent policies on domestic violence, and…

Jackson rips NFL for lack of diversity in advisers

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson criticized the NFL on Tuesday for not including any African-American women when it brought on three domestic…

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