Jesse Jackson
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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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2023South to Black Power
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2022Loudmouth
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2022El otro Rey de Chicago
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2021Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
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2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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2021Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
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2021Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
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2021Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
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2021Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
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2021September First, Twenty-Twenty
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2020Uncle Tom
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2020Bernie Blackout
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2019Stax, le label soul légendaire
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2019Chicago at the Crossroad
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2018The Road to Mass Incarceration
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2018Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
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2018I Am MLK Jr.
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2017LA 92
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2016Crashing the Party
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2016'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
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2016Fantastic Lies
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2014We Are Many
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2013Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
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