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Joe Biden Will Reportedly Meet With George Floyd’s Family Before Monday’s Funeral

Joe Biden Will Reportedly Meet With George Floyd’s Family Before Monday’s Funeral

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden will reportedly be meeting with George Floyd’s family before the funeral service which is scheduled to take place in Houston on Monday, ABC News reported. An aide with the Biden campaign told the outlet that the candidate is planning to travel to Houston on Monday […]

4y ago

Jesse Jackson Endorses Bernie Sanders After Claiming The Biden Campaign Did Not Reach Out To Him

Jesse Jackson Endorses Bernie Sanders After Claiming The Biden Campaign Did Not Reach Out To Him

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson offered his endorsement for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders earlier today. The vote of support comes as Sanders hopes to regain his front-runner status after former Vice President Joe Biden‘s major win on Super Tuesday. “With the exception of Native Americans, African Americans are the people who are most behind socially […]

4y ago

Jesse Jackson Torches Joe Biden: ‘His Message Does Not Address The Pain Of Our People’

Jesse Jackson Torches Joe Biden: ‘His Message Does Not Address The Pain Of Our People’

After finishing fourth in Iowa, coming in fifth in New Hampshire, and being blown out of the water by Sen. Bernie Sanders in Nevada, former Vice President Joe Biden lost his long-held status of the Democratic frontrunner. Winning South Carolina, which votes Saturday, is now a must for the Delaware Democrat. Biden still holds a […]

4y ago

Stacey Abrams Predicts Georgia Win In Spite Of Rampant Voter Suppression Claims

Stacey Abrams Predicts Georgia Win In Spite Of Rampant Voter Suppression Claims

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Adams was joined by civil rights icon Jesse Jackson as she held a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, November 6, to urge supporters – who in many cases were stalled for hours – to stay on line and vote in spite of what failures in logistics, technical difficulties, and suspect registration […]

6y ago

Stevie Wonder, Jesse Jackson Were Among The Last People To Visit Aretha Franklin In Her Final Hours

Stevie Wonder, Jesse Jackson Were Among The Last People To Visit Aretha Franklin In Her Final Hours

Aretha Franklin was surrounded by her loved ones when she died earlier this week, and several of her famous friends were among the last to see her alive. The Queen of Soul passed away on August 16 in her Detroit home at age 76 following a battle with cancer, the same day that Elvis Presley […]

6y ago

Rev. Billy Graham Dead At 99: Donald Trump, Barack Obama And More React To The Death Of The Famed Evangelist

Rev. Billy Graham Dead At 99: Donald Trump, Barack Obama And More React To The Death Of The Famed Evangelist

Rev. Billy Graham has passed away. The famed evangelist, who was long known as “America’s Pastor,” died at his home in North Carolina of natural causes, a family spokesman told ABC News. Billy Graham was 99 years old and would have celebrated his 100th birthday in November. Billy Graham was one of the most well-known […]

6y ago

Reverend Jesse Jackson Diagnosed With Parkinson’s Disease, Asks For Prayers

Reverend Jesse Jackson Diagnosed With Parkinson’s Disease, Asks For Prayers

Notorious civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson has just shared the sad news that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. CNN reported the 76-year-old had been suffering from symptoms of the disease for over three years before he was officially diagnosed. The reverend stated he could feel the changes in his body, and after […]

7y ago

Pat Boone On Reissuing ‘In A Metal Mood’ And Working With Metallica, Alice Cooper, And Other Hard Rock Royalty

Pat Boone On Reissuing ‘In A Metal Mood’ And Working With Metallica, Alice Cooper, And Other Hard Rock Royalty

With over 45 million records sold worldwide and 220 consecutive weeks on the charts to his credit, few singers have accomplished even a small fraction of what Pat Boone has. However, music has only been one facet of Boone’s career, as he is the holder of three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In […]

7y ago

Jesse Jackson Says President Donald Trump ‘Would Not Qualify To Get Into Jesus’ Kingdom’ — Here’s Why

Jesse Jackson Says President Donald Trump ‘Would Not Qualify To Get Into Jesus’ Kingdom’ — Here’s Why

The Reverend Jesse Jackson usually always has plenty to say about a number of topics, and this week, he let the world know that President Donald Trump would not “qualify” to enter the kingdom of Heaven. This past week, Jackson appeared in Washington, D.C., to speak to a number of people for the National Action […]

7y ago

At Women’s March, Jesse Jackson Claims ‘Right To Vote Is Threatened’

At Women’s March, Jesse Jackson Claims ‘Right To Vote Is Threatened’

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has seen his share of civil unrest. The 75-year-old minister has spent the majority of his life working within civil rights movements, starting when he was a college student in the 1960s. Jackson, who worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr., has gained fame speaking for those he believes to […]

7y ago

Jesse Jackson Wants President Obama To Pardon Hillary Clinton For Her Crimes

Jesse Jackson Wants President Obama To Pardon Hillary Clinton For Her Crimes

Before Barack Obama bows out of office, Rev. Jesse Jackson wants him to use his presidential powers to give Hillary Clinton an absolute pardon. Without saying that Clinton did anything wrong, Jackson stated that the outgoing president should block Donald Trump’s intent to prosecute Clinton for using a private email server during her tenure as […]

8y ago

Donald Trump Wins Praise From Jesse Jackson For Diversity And Inclusiveness [Video]

Donald Trump Wins Praise From Jesse Jackson For Diversity And Inclusiveness [Video]

Back in the late 1990s, Donald Trump was lauded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson as a friend to minorities and underserved communities. “Jesse Jackson thinks Donald Trump is a champion of minority empowerment. Or at least he used to before the turn of the millennium,” The Daily Caller, which unearthed the video embedded below, explained. […]

8y ago

Hillary Clinton Endorsed For President By Reverend Jesse Jackson

Hillary Clinton Endorsed For President By Reverend Jesse Jackson

Hillary Clinton, now confirmed to be the Democrat presumptive nominee, today had her bid for president endorsed by civil rights crusader Reverend Jesse Jackson, according to a report from CNN. Jackson, who had previously been in touch with representatives of both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to encourage party unity against Donald Trump and the […]

8y ago

New Hillary Clinton Emails Reveal Her Network Of Powerful Celebrity Friends, Including Lady Gaga And Ben Affleck

New Hillary Clinton Emails Reveal Her Network Of Powerful Celebrity Friends, Including Lady Gaga And Ben Affleck

It’s hard to hear the name of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton without someone mentioning her email scandal. While fellow Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders mentioned at the first Democratic debate that the country was tired of hearing about her “d**n emails,” it seems there’s even more to discover about Clinton’s emails. According to the Associated Press, […]

9y ago

Brittany ‘Bree’ Newsome, Social Activist, Climbs S.C. State Capital Flagpole To Remove Confederate Flag, Jesse Jackson Tweets Support

Brittany ‘Bree’ Newsome, Social Activist, Climbs S.C. State Capital Flagpole To Remove Confederate Flag, Jesse Jackson Tweets Support

Brittany “Bree” Newsome has caused quite the stir at the South Carolina Capital building, as well as on Twitter, after she daringly climbed the flagpole to remove the controversial confederate flag on Saturday morning. According to the International Business Times, Brittany ‘Bree’ Newsome was arrested after she shimmied up the flagpole and temporarily took down […]

9y ago

Jesse Jackson Jr. Released From Halfway House In Baltimore

Jesse Jackson Jr. Released From Halfway House In Baltimore

Jesse Jackson Jr. has been released from a halfway house where he has lived for the past several months after serving two and a half years in prison for spending $750,000 in campaign money on personal items, according to the Associated Press. Jackson, a former U.S. Rep from Chicago, was released from the Volunteers of […]

9y ago

Ku Klux Klan Better Than New Black Leaders, Says Reverend, As Doctor Tells Blacks To Kill Cops In ‘Self Defense’

Ku Klux Klan Better Than New Black Leaders, Says Reverend, As Doctor Tells Blacks To Kill Cops In ‘Self Defense’

The Ku Klux Klan and Nazi skinheads are actually better than today’s black leaders according to Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, who is also African American himself. The black Reverend makes this claim even as some black leaders like Dr. Mauricelm-Lei Millere tells blacks that they must kill cops in self-defense. In a related report by […]

9y ago

Kim Bruns Holds Black Couple At Gunpoint In Bar, Tells Them, ‘Call Jesse Jackson!’ Report Says

Kim Bruns Holds Black Couple At Gunpoint In Bar, Tells Them, ‘Call Jesse Jackson!’ Report Says

Kim Bruns, owner of the George & Dragon British Pub in Orlando, Florida, says she is not a racist. But the report given by a young couple to police there about their encounter with Bruns last Saturday at the bar appears to tell a very different — and frightening — story. “It’s all false accusations,” […]

9y ago

Jesse Jackson Says Punishing Cheating Black Little League Team Is Racist

Jesse Jackson Says Punishing Cheating Black Little League Team Is Racist

Among the Black American community, Jesse Jackson is recognized as an important figurehead who defends their rights. The Inquisitr previously reported on such news that shows Jackson in such a light, specifically in the cases of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. As a matter of fact, Jackson has either made decrees or rationalizations when those […]

9y ago

Ferguson Aftermath: Business Owners Talk Life After Riots, Reveal Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, And Al Sharpton Never Reached Out To Them

Ferguson Aftermath: Business Owners Talk Life After Riots, Reveal Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, And Al Sharpton Never Reached Out To Them

Distressed Ferguson business owners are all struggling to recover from the aftermath of the riots that ripped through the city following the grand jury’s decision regarding the controversial death of Michael Brown. Needless to say, the road to recovery will be quite long, as many business owners are left to pick up the pieces of […]

10y ago

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