Jesse Jackson was furious over injustice. He was also full of hope. His funeral was a reminder that the two were never meant to be separated.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Remembering Jesse Jackson’s Poetic Synthesis
I wrote a book about him, and we became friends. The cynics didn’t understand how he fused moral simplicity and political profundity.
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Keep Hope Alive: Reflections on Jesse Jackson
The late civil rights leader who died this week built a multiracial, multifaith coalition rooted in shared economic and democratic aspirations.
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The Judge Standing up to Trump’s Portland Invasion
“Freedom,” wrote George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, “is the freedom to say two plus two make four. Once that is granted, all else follows.” But what if the test is whether a president can add two and two and get in the neighborhood of four? What if the president says 2+2=10,000? Is that close enough […]
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Trump Released Martin Luther King Jr. Files: I’m in Them
Trump seemed to release the King assassination files without care to distract from Epstein. No wonder the King family is concerned. I am, too.
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The Supreme Court Should Listen to Congress in Ghost Guns Case
The Gun Control Act of 1968 outlawed untraceable weapons assembled from kits. That was as true then as it is now in the age of 3D printers.
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“It’s Time for a Resurrection, Not an Insurrection”
William J. Barber II, the pastor and activist behind “Moral Mondays,” is helping to lead a reinvigorated Poor People’s Campaign. In his new book, he explains why poverty is worse and more widespread than you think and all races need to unite to fight for the nation’s poor.
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Can the Declaration of Independence’s Ideals Hold America Together?
Can the Declaration of Independence’s Ideals Hold America Together? A new national poll suggests it very much can.
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I Didn’t Watch the Video of Tyre Nichols
The daughter of a former Memphis cop explains why she didn’t view the latest traffic stop that became a death sentence—and why you may not want to either.
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“Violence Loses in the Long Run”
At 81, Jesse Jackson reflects on his mentor Martin Luther King Jr., Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Ron DeSantis, and a life spent promoting social change.
