Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is 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 was the founder 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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TV Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.5
The Daily Show
6.354
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
3
Robins
7.8
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
5.8
Shut Up and Dribble
1
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
0
Tanner '88
6.7
Saturday Night Live
7
The Chris Rock Show
4.4
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
6
A Different World
7.123
Baseball
7.341
Real Time with Bill Maher
5.984
Explained
7.5
Dinah!
6.667
Movies
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
0
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
7.312
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
6.4
BaadAsssss Cinema
6.1
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
0
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
7.61
University, Inc.
0
The Subtext of a Yale Education
0
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
6.3
A Man's Story
6.9
The Soul of Stax
0
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
7.5
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
5.6
Stax, le label soul légendaire
0
Chicago at the Crossroad
4
Uptight
6.5
Ballou
8
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
8.5
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
10
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
7.1
Operation Breadbasket
0
Crashing the Party
0
Michael Jackson Memorial
8
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
6
Uncle Tom
7.8
The Road to Mass Incarceration
0
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
7.091
We Are Many
6.7
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
7.4
Loudmouth
6
El otro Rey de Chicago
0
4 Little Girls
7.261
A Matter of Respect
0
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
0
South to Black Power
6
Anecdotes about Fidel
0
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
6.776
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
8.2
Save the Children
6.4
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
6.8
Fantastic Lies
7.2
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
0
A Decade of Struggle
0
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
6
Route One/USA
7.3
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
0
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
0
In Remembrance of Martin
9
Decade
7
Nationtime
8
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
10
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
9
I Am MLK Jr.
9.5
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
0
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
6.5
Last Party 2000
6.1
September First, Twenty-Twenty
9
Bernie Blackout
7
We Are Universal
0
Dear Mister President
0