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TheGrio's 100: Bonita Carr, director of youth center pushes the envelope on...
Bonita Carr, Ph.D. is the executive director of the Lighthouse Youth Center in Chicago’s South Side neighborhood of Bronzeville. The Lighthouse Youth Center works with at-risk youth and provides them...
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The 10 biggest black Oscar scandals of all time (SLIDESHOW)
The black community has long had a love-hate relationship with the Academy Awards. Hollywood’s highest honors have only recently started to become more inclusive and even still, the black performances...
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Michigan 2012 GOP primary: Is Rick Santorum the Jesse Jackson of 2012?
Reverend Jesse Jackson went into Michigan as the underdog in the 1988 Democratic primary race and emerged as an unlikely frontrunner for the party’s nomination. It was during this primary that Jackson...
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Rush Limbaugh's 10 most offensive comments
Rush Limbaugh is known for pushing the envelope on offensive rhetoric. But his attack on a Georgetown law student may have gone over the line. But Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a...
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Sharpton march part of broader push against new voting laws
The Rev. Al Sharpton, and other civil rights leaders, are marching this week in Alabama, in an attempt to draw public attention to controversial voting laws passed in states around the country, the...
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Donald Payne death a final chapter for Black Caucus class of 1988
With the passing of New Jersey Congressman Donald Payne, America has lost a piece of black political history. He was, literally, the last of a dying breed. Payne, 77, was the first African-American...
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Rep. Donald Payne remembered for quiet effectiveness
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Rep. Donald Payne was a modest man who favored quiet persuasion over bombast, qualities that didn’t detract from his effectiveness as an advocate for the most vulnerable in the U.S....
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Rev. Jesse Jackson aims to lead religious delegation to Syria
GENEVA (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he is working to lead a delegation of religious figures to Syria to help find an end to the violence that has wracked the country. Jackson told The Associated...
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Trayvon Martin supporters hold prayer vigils
EATONVILLE, Florida (AP) — Wearing hooded sweatshirts similar to the one that Trayvon Martin wore on the night he was killed, many preachers and worshippers echoed calls for justice Sunday in the...
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Born with half a heart, Skylar fights to survive
Skylar Turner was born with half a heart. First diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome at 20 weeks, Michelle and LaFayette Turner were faced with three options. Doctors said they could carry...
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Fox News reportedly hires Jesse Jackson's daughter as analyst
Is Fox News really becoming more fair and balanced? In a surprising move, the conservative cable news network is hiring Rev. Jesse Jackson’s daughter, Santita Jackson, and she will make her debut soon...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition challenges gun laws
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson says his Rainbow PUSH Coalition will organize to change gun laws in Oklahoma, where a shooting spree recently terrorized residents in a...
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Sanford chief defender’s letter, addressed to black city manager, littered...
It’s one of those cases that demonstrates how racism is lived in America. A letter, sent via the City of Sanford’s official letter, and addressed to the city manager, decries the treatment afforded the...
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Has Jesse Jackson become irrelevant?
Is Jesse Jackson still relevant? And can he remain relevant in the age of Obama? For the past decade, it seems, the iconic civil rights leader, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., founder and president of...
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Democratic leaders urge update from absent Jesse Jackson Jr
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic House leaders on Wednesday joined colleagues and constituents in urging Rep. Jesse Jackson of Illinois, who has been on medical leave for a month without disclosing details...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson to meet family of a Colorado movie theater shooting victims
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is visiting Aurora to meet with theater shooting victims and renew his call for a ban on assault weapons. Jackson visited the apartment building of James...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson: No timetable on son’s recovery
CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson said there is “no timetable” as his son, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., recovers from depression and gastrointestinal issues at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. The...
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Jackson camp on NY Post’s Jesse, Jr. seat switch story: ‘false’, ‘absurd’
Family and staffers to Chicago Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. strongly refuted a New York Post report, which quoted unnamed sources as saying Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. is working behind-the-scenes to place his...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson visits Chavis Carter family
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Chavis Carter’s family hasn’t accepted the official explanation for his death: that he was on meth when he fatally shot himself while his hands were cuffed behind him in the...
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Jesse Jackson lends support to hoops player accused of assault
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — After Darrell Williams’ brother was shot to death in 2009 in a Chicago neighborhood, his mother and aunt knew what had to be done to spare him the same fate. A promising...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson would marry a same-sex couple if asked
Rev. Jesse Jackson would perform a same sex marriage if he was asked to. During last week’s Democratic National Convention, Jackson told conservative outlet Human Events that he sees “no problem” with...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson secures release of American prisoners in Gambia
Rev. Jesse Jackson added to his long list of diplomatic accomplishments this week by securing the release of two Americans who had been imprisoned in Gambia for decades. In the 1980s, Jackson was able...
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Why we can’t keep hope alive for Jesse Jackson
Rev. Jesse Jackson was once the golden child of black American politics, seen by many African-Americans in the 1970s and 80s as the heir to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil...
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Son’s woes weigh heavily on the Rev. Jesse Jackson
CHICAGO (AP) — In the cluttered office where he’s met with some of the nation’s top politicians and preachers, penned rousing speeches and planned civil rights marches, the Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks...
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Jesse Jackson Jr’s wife won’t run for House seat
CHICAGO (AP) — The wife of Jesse Jackson Jr. said Tuesday that she’s not interested in running for the U.S. House seat her husband held for nearly 17 years, ending talk that she was eying the...
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Ed Koch, mayor who became a symbol of NYC, dies at 88
NEW YORK (AP) — Ed Koch’s favorite moment as mayor of New York City, fittingly, involved yelling. Suddenly inspired to do something brash about the rare transit strike that crippled the city in 1980,...
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Lil Wayne’s Emmett Till lyric offends, gets pulled by Epic label
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Epic Records says it is making “great efforts” to take down a new Future remix with a vulgar Lil Wayne lyric that has offended the family of a black U.S. teenager whose...
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Where does Jesse Jackson’s family go from here?
Are we witnessing the end of the Jackson dynasty? Where does this once beloved political family go from here? With former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. pleading guilty to spending $750,000 in campaign...
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Which leaders speak for black America?
Is there a leadership crisis in black America? A new poll suggests African-Americans think so. The poll was commissioned by BET founder Robert L. Johnson, also the chairman of The RLJ Companies, and...
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Obama endorses Robin Kelly to replace Jesse Jackson Jr.
NBC Chicago – The man who once backed Jesse Jackson Jr. for Illinois’ 2nd District is supporting the former congressman’s likely successor. President Barack Obama on Tuesday endorsed Robin Kelly in the...
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Will Anthony Weiner win over black voters in New York City?
The morning after announcing his run for mayor via video, Anthony Weiner’s very first campaign stop was in Harlem, shaking hands with commuters at a subway stop on the corner of 125th Street and Lenox...
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 Detroit march remembered 50 years later
DETROIT (AP) — Thousands participated in a Detroit march commemorating the 50th anniversary of one that Martin Luther King Jr. led in 1963. The walk down Woodward Avenue on Saturday morning culminated...
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Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act this Tuesday, and many prominent figures have voiced their approval or disgust. The legislation, signed into law by President...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson ‘disappointed’ in Supreme Court decision on Voting Rights
Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson reacted with disappointment to the Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act. “I grieved [today] because I marched for...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson: Paula Deen can be ‘redeemed’
CHICAGO (AP) — Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson says he’s agreed to help celebrity chef Paula Deen try to make amends for her past use of a racial slur, saying she shouldn’t become a “sacrificial...
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Dream Defenders to draft ‘Trayvon’s Law’ legislation from halls of Florida’s...
Reverend Jesse Jackson announced his support of the Dream Defenders today, the latest in a string of high-profile affiliations, which includes entertainment and civil rights icon Harry Belafonte. The...
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Gov. Rick Scott: ‘Jesse Jackson owes every Floridian an apology’
Florida Governor Rick Scott has called on civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson to apologize in light of the comments he has made about the Sunshine State. On Tuesday Jackson headed to the Florida...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson defends ‘apartheid’ comments about Fla.
This video is playable across all supported devices. Jackson joined protesters at the state Capitol this week, and called Florida the "Selma of our time." Republican Gov. Rick Scott blasted Jackson's...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson describes ‘difficult time’ for his family
WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson says it’s been “an extraordinarily difficult time” for his family. He was in court today in Washington to see his son, former Congressman Jesse...
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Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond share thoughts on 50th anniversary March on...
“One of my mentors once told me, ‘In order to be truly free, you must give deposits greater than yourself,'” Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks, Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer of the National...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson in Cuba, hopes to see jailed American
HAVANA (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson traveled to Cuba Friday for talks with the island’s religious leaders and said he hopes to visit Alan Gross, a U.S. government subcontractor serving a 15-year...
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Civil rights leaders, activists mark ‘Bloody Sunday’ anniversary in Selma
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Jesse Jackson to take on tech’s lack of diversity
Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to lead a delegation to the Hewlett-Packard annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday to bring attention to Silicon Valley’s poor record of including blacks...
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Jesse Jackson Jr. released from halfway house, father says he’s doing ‘really...
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 lived for several months since serving 2½ years in...
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Jesse Jackson says Pres. Obama has failed to provide ‘targeted plan’ for...
In a new interview with the International Business Times, Rev. Jesse Jackson expresses his disappointment with President Obama’s ‘record’ as it relates to empowering African-Americans. “[Pres. Obama]...
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Jesse Jackson’s 16-year-old daughter records rap song
At age 16, Jesse Jackson’s daughter already knows what she wants to be: a rap star. Ashley Jackson reportedly recorded her first rap song, which has, according to TMZ, “engaging” lyrics and an “Iggy...
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Black Lives Matter must run their own presidential candidate in 2016
When I first heard that #BlackLivesMatter activists decided to upstage 2016 presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Martin O’Malley at the Netroots Nation convention, I was intrigued. It...
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Protesters march in Chicago shopping district
CHICAGO (AP) — A protest march has begun in Chicago’s shopping district, with the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the middle of a crowd that’s shouting, “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now!”...
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Jesse Jackson: Flint residents ‘betrayed’ in water crisis
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says Flint, Michigan, residents coping with a drinking water crisis “have been betrayed.” The civil rights leader told a crowd at a church Sunday in Flint...
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Jesse Jackson to churchgoers: ‘If you voted yesterday, you need a real prayer’
The morning after Donald Trump won the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina, Jesse Jackson visited the black congregation at First Nazareth Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, to...
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