News From A Colorful Perspective
By Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. Colin Kaepernick may yet get his day in court. Kaepernick is the talented former NFL quarterback who in 2016 began a protest against police brutality and institutionalized racial discrimination by kneeling during the playing of the national anthem. Other players joined the protests. Kaepernick wasn’t…
By Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. Last week, amid the continuing clamor of Trump’s chaos presidency, the question of whether Trump had used the n-word became a media sensation. Omarosa Manigault Newman, the president’s former aide, claims there is a tape of him using the vile racial slur. White House press…
The Trump administration has separated some 2,000 children from their parents, most of whom have come to the United States seeking asylum. Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited the Bible, Romans 13, as justification for this zero-tolerance immigration policy. The first verse reads: “Everyone is to obey the governing authorities, because…
By Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. President Donald Trump torpedoed the summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in a letter he dictated that was virtually incoherent. (Weekly commentary form The Chicago Sun-Times) The question now is whether the shoddy, impulsive, neck-snapping reversals of the White House will spark a…
Civil rights leader, Baptist minister and politician Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. announced on Twitter Friday afternoon his personal struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Jackson, 76, said in a statement that he and his family started noticing changes about three years ago when he found it difficult to do routine tasks….
Vice President Mike Pence walked out of an NFL game between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers on Sunday because some of the players chose to kneel during the national anthem. Pence tweeted in a statement that he stands with President Donald Trump and “everyone is entitled to their…
Michigan lawmakers and local civil rights activists are demanding Col. Kriste Etue step down over a text meme she shared on Facebook calling NFL players who take a knee during the national anthem “anti-American degenerates.” However, the governor’s office said Etue, director of Michigan State Police (MSP), would not be…
At DiversityInc’s fall event in Newark, N.J. on Wednesday, civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. addressed President Donald Trump’s comments about NFL players’ protests during the national anthem, and explained the reason why Colin Kaepernick began his protest police brutality. During a rally in Alabama on Friday, Trump referred…
Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s (MLB) color barrier when he made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Seventy years later, the franchise, now the Los Angeles Dodgers, unveiled a statue on Saturday honoring the trailblazer. Before the Dodgers’ game against the Arizona Diamondbacks,…
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