Rev. Jesse Jackson: Justice In Arkansas. Police Car Shooting

Jesse Jackson led a march through Jonesboro, Arkansas Wednesday to protest the controversial handcuffed shooting death of Chavis Carter last month. Jackson says he hopes the community heals and finds balance.

Fox: Jackson Used N-Word in Off-Air Remarks

By: Sophia Tareen, Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) For decades, the Rev. Jesse Jackson has rallied against the use of the N-word -- an ethnic slur he has repeatedly told the American public is hateful and degrading. But Fox News confirmed to The Associated Press Wednesday that the longtime civil rights activist used the term in what Jackson thought was a private conversation during a break from a TV interview.

Jackson has already come under fire this month for crude off-air comments he made against presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama that were recorded during a taping of a "Fox & Friends" news show.

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Jackson Barks, but Does He Still Have Bite?

By PATRICK HEALY

It used to be called “the Jesse Jackson problem”: Democratic presidential candidates fearing they would lose black votes if they got on Mr. Jackson’s bad side, given the influence he accrued as a civil rights activist and his history-making races for the White House in 1984 and 1988.

But if his recent critical comments about Senator Barack Obama prove anything, Democrats and political scientists said Thursday, it is that a Jesse problem these days can actually help a candidate like Mr. Obama — with white voters who have questions about whether Mr. Obama shares their values, and with black voters who see Mr. Jackson as a figure of the past.

Even Mr. Jackson’s 43-year-old son, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois, went beyond repudiation to excoriate him — a poignant reminder that a real generational shift in power and leadership is under way in African-American politics. Mr. Obama, 46, has already overshadowed former President Bill Clinton, once a deeply popular figure among black Americans; if anything, Mr. Obama seems likely to gain political dividends from Mr. Jackson’s vulgar criticism of him for, as Mr. Jackson put it, “talking down to black people” in speeches about the responsibilities of absent black fathers.

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Jackson Apologizes for Obama Remarks

By Brian Stelter

The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for critical comments he made about Senator Barack Obama that were picked up by a Fox News Channel microphone.

According to various reports, Mr. Jackson made disparaging remarks, apparently including a crude reference, about how Mr. Obama was talking to black people.

In a statement Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Jackson, a former Democratic candidate for president, said: “For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize. My support for Senator Obama’s campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal. I cherish this redemptive and historical moment.”

Mr. Jackson apologized after Fox News said it would would be broadcasting the remarks on “The O’Reilly Factor” Wednesday night.

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JESSE JACKSON WANTS MORE 'BLACK-BROWN' UNITY: Civil rights leader calls for more dialogue between African Americans and Latinos.

Rev. Jesse Jackson and Latino Immigration activists have announced the joint launch of a "black-brown coalition" to push for Immigration reform, school safety and other issues, reports the Chicago Tribune.

The announcement was made Saturday inside Jackson's Rainbow-PUSH headquarters on Chicago's South Side. The group used the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination to call for greater unity between the two communities and put aside racial tensions.

"How do you honor Dr. King's legacy 40 years later?" Jackson asked. "We go to schools together, we work in hospitals together, we vote together, we raise our youth together. So we must learn to live together."

The first order of business will come May 1, when activists will again take to the streets to call for legalizing the country's 12 million undocumented immigrants.

Organizers have been strategizing for weeks inside PUSH headquarters, which has a Latino chapter, to boost African-American interest in the march. Plans include radio interviews and announcements during church services and union meetings.

PUSH also recently launched Spanish classes.