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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Polk, the leading automotive market intelligence firm, and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, led by Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., have signed a strategic business agreement to help automotive manufacturers better target their marketing efforts with ethnic audiences, the companies announced today. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110425/DE89174LOGO ) "We are pleased to align with Rainbow PUSH on this effort to provide information to...
The Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council announces a series of major events throughout New England. Corporations, minority business leaders and political and civic leaders are invited to participate in all of these events. The highlight for the next three months is the GNEMSDC Annual Awards Gala on April 28 at the Aqua Turf in Southington, CT. Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. the renowned civil and human rights leader will be the keyonte speaker. All of our events are open...
LOS ANGELES, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Coalition of African American Owned Media (NCAAOM) denounces Comcast's promise of four (4) African American controlled networks to its digital tier (not widely distributed) and a $20 million pledge to assist minority entrepreneurs as "extremely insulting." (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100628/LA27343LOGO) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100628/LA27343LOGO) Stanley E. Washington, NCAAOM President & CEO stated,...
WASHINGTON, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has announced that it will honor the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and one of America's foremost religious, political and civil rights leaders, with the 2010 Louis E. Martin Great American Award at its 40th Anniversary Gala Dinner, April 27, 2010 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington. Reverend Jackson will be recognized for more than a...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson says former Atlanta quarterback Michael Vick should be allowed to return to the NFL immediately because he has paid his debt to society. Vick was recently released from federal prison after serving nearly two years for his role in financing a dog fighting ring. However, the National Football League says it won't decide until six weeks into the 2009 season if he can play again. The former starting quarterback was released by the Atlanta Falcons. Jackson told The...
NEW YORK, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- A crucial element is missing from all the recent debate about who truly is the number one team in college football, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., President and founder of the Rainbow PUSH, said today. Academic performance should be a factor in BCS rankings, he said. Graduation success rates and academic progress rates - both of which are tracked by the NCAA - should be a factor, Rev. Jackson said. "On a scale of 10, at least give two points on that scale. The...
By David Espo AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - By accusing Barack Obama of playing the race card, John McCain hopes to shuffle the deck in a White House campaign that is scarcely begun, much less settled.In so doing, the Republican made at least two political calculations.He risked at least temporarily overshadowing a tough ad his campaign had unleashed depicting Obama as a celebrity in the Paris Hilton mold.And by challenging Obama directly, he chose a course that Hillary Rodham...
Would somebody please tell Jesse Jackson to go somewhere _ anywhere _ and sit down? And, while you're at it, pass along the admonishment delivered by the background singers in Isaac Hayes' hit movie theme song from "Shaft" when their well-timed lyric bleeped an offensive word with the refrain: "Shut yo' mouth!"Jesse has grown tiring for those of us who have long known and said that the most dangerous place to be is between the Rev. Jackson and a television camera. I...
CHICAGO - Jesse Jackson used the N-word during a break in a TV interview where he criticized presidential candidate Barack Obama, Fox News confirmed Wednesday. Jackson was already under fire for crude off-air comments he made against Obama in what he thought was a private conversation during a taping of a "Fox & Friends" news show. In additional comments from that same conversation, first reported by TVNewser, Jackson is reported to have said Obama was "talking down to black people," and...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson used the N-word during a break in a TV interview where he criticized presidential candidate Barack Obama, Fox News confirmed Wednesday. The longtime civil rights leader already came under fire this month for crude off-air comments he made against Obama in what he thought was a private conversation during a taping of a "Fox & Friends" news show. In additional comments from that same conversation, first reported by TVNewser, Jackson is reported to have said...
