After struggling for several months with mental health issues, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) announced this afternoon that There have been reports in recent weeks that Jackson remains the target of an ongoing investigations, though it's unclear if his resignation is related to those allegation...
The article focuses on Jesse Jackson Jr.'s resignation for U.S. Congress due to health issues and his efforts to institute national voting reforms.NICHOLSJOHN(AUTHOR)EBSCO_AspNation
Jesse Jackson has beenbattling Parkinson's diseasefor the last eight years. He suffered a host of health setbacks in 2021, beginning withgallbladder surgery, aCOVID-19 infectionthat landed him in a physical therapy-focused facility anda fall at Howard Universitythat caused a head...
Jackson said in his remarks that he plans to continue working on social justice issues, including advocating for three survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre who this week saw a judge dismiss their lawsuit seeking reparations. “We’re resigning, we’re not retiring,” Jackson...
Jesse Jackson on a trip to Ivory Coast.During her 21 years at WGN, she won nine Emmys and co-anchored both the station’s primetime newscast as well as the midday news show.She also suffered from a series of health issues over the years, taking a medical leave of absence in 2008 ...
Rev Jessie Jackson fathered a child outside his marriage back in 2001. Now, the reverends 15-year-old bastard daughter, Ashley Jackson, wants to be a pop star.Here’s what’s reported:“Ashley’s mother, political science professor Karin Stanford, was a top aid for Jesse Jackson’s ...
comedian: Mia Jackson mix CD: Ira benefiting: Violence Policy Center Big Day Coming (fast) My Heart’s Reflection Ashes I’m On My Way From A Motel 6 Beanbag Chair The Point of It (with Charlie Saufley on guitar) Sorrow (The McCoys) (with CS & Meg Baird on vocals/percussion) ...
Jackson, 82, announced last July that he was stepping down amid health issues, including his diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. The reverend was a close ally and friend of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1971, Jackson founded Operation PUSH, which later became the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, he...
Carl Jackson joined the Virginia Boys in 1967 …. “When Jim & Jesse hired me as their banjo player and officially made me a Virginia Boy fifty some odd years ago, it placed me on a career path that has been blessed beyond belief.They were certainly bluegrass music icons, but they were...
Jackson, a longtime civil rights leader and Democratic presidential candidate in 1984 and 1988, said in a statement he will appear alongside Sanders at an event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Sunday. He praised the Vermont senator for committing the tackling issues that are of significance to the...