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Jesse Jackson
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomin…
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Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'.
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2024
Hollywood Black
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2023
South to Black Power
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2022
Loudmouth
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2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
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2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
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2021
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
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- 2021
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2021
September First, Twenty-Twenty
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- 2021
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2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
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2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
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2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
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2020
Obama
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2020
Bernie Blackout
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- 2020
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2019
Stax, le label soul légendaire
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2019
Chicago at the Crossroad
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2018
Shut Up and Dribble
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2018
The Road to Mass Incarceration
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2018
Explained
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2018
I Am MLK Jr.
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2018
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
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2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
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2017
Velshi
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2017
LA 92
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2016
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
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2016
Crashing the Party
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2016
Fantastic Lies
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2014
We Are Many
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2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
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2012
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
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2011
A Man's Story
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2009
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
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2009
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
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2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
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2009
Michael Jackson Memorial
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2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
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2009
Anecdotes about Fidel
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2008
The Day the Troubles Began
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