By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (NNPA) – After he completes his campaign for more diversity in Silicon Valley, Jesse Jackson plans to expand...
by Chris King Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American ST. LOUIS — Jesse Jackson told The American he hopes that the U.S....
(USA Today) SAN FRANCISCO — Civil rights activists are turning up pressure on Twitter to publicly release the gender and ethnic breakdown of its flock...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The young in America are being forced into cruel levels of debt, and this debt is already curbing...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – With civil rights legends Andrew Young, John Lewis, Julian Bond and Jesse Jackson looking on, President...
By Jesse L Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The Bible’s injunction that we shall be judged by how we have treated the “least of these” (Mathew 25:40)...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist “It cannot be said that the employed scholarship players are ‘primarily students.’” With that statement, a regional director...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PRETORIA, South Africa (NNPA) – Nearly a month after his death, there is a bitter struggle to define – and,...
NEWS ANALYSIS By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PRETORIA, South Africa (NNPA) – President Obama and former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist PRETORIA, South Africa – Jesse Jackson left the Southern Sun Hotel in downtown Pretoria shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday,...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Bill De Blasio is garnering national attention for his landslide election in the New York City mayor’s race. De...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – FARC, the Colombian guerrillas, freed former U.S. veteran Kevin Scott Sutay Sunday after more than four months...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief [SECOND OF TWO PARTS] HAVANA, Cuba (NNPA) – Jesse Jackson was ensconced in his 6th floor suite at Hotel Nacional, at...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist William Thomas and Bruce Harris are two very successful judges who most people don’t know. Thomas is from Miami and...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief [FIRST OF TWO PARTS] HAVANA, Cuba (NNPA) – Jesse Jackson says now that Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos has rejected...
[NEW YORK POST] The Post exclusively reported Sunday how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grappled with what he called his “lust demons” and kept a scorecard of more...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Organizers of the two recent marches on Washington – one called by Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King, III...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist This weekend, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, best known...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief RABAT, Morocco (NNPA) – Although Tunisia, Egypt and other troubled hotspots in the region have been shaken by popular uprisings,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When the story broke that Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) had used political donations as his...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist On Wednesday, Aug. 14, Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. was scheduled to be sentenced to prison in connection with using campaign...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist As we approach the 50th anniversary of the famous March on Washington – Aug. 28 – Americans will recall Dr....
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Several of us were sharing our views on radio Sunday night with Gary Byrd when my friend and colleague Cash...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Hold the presses! Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, those bad “Black militant” leaders who all these years have exercised a...
By Jesse Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist North Carolina — once poster child for the New South — now displays the nightmares spawned by the Tea Party...