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Review: ‘Purpose’ skewers the Jesse Jackson story — it’s the explosive play Steppenwolf has been...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIn the summer of 2013, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., scion of the civil rights leader, was sentenced to 30...
Jesse Jackson's half brother freed from life prison sentence
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn 80-year-old half-brother of the Rev. Jesse Jackson who was sentenced to life in prison more than 30 years ago after being convicted of hiring hit men has been released from prison, officials ...
Why it’s so rare for Congress to expel a member
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIt almost seems to be harder to get kicked out of Congress than it is to get elected in the first place. There’s been no shortage of scoundrels elected...
Does the DOJ target more Republicans than Democrats? Here’s the data
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe long-standing allegation from former President Donald Trump is that President Joe Biden has...
R. Kelly transferred from Chicago to North Carolina prison
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSinger and child predator R. Kelly has been transferred to a prison in North Carolina, officials said Monday. Kelly, 56, arrived at a federal prison in Butner, N.C., last Wednesday, according ...
Today in History: MARCH 11, Earthquake and tsunami in Japan
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoToday in History Today is Saturday, March 11, the 70th day of 2023. There are 295 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On March 11, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed ...
Three years after George Floyd’s death, reckoning with police violence remains in limbo
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoProponents of federal actions — such as banning chokeholds and changing the so-called qualified...
Friday marks 20 years since E2 nightclub’s deadly crowd crush in South Loop, one of the worst in...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTorriana Cox doesn’t remember much about her mother. After all, she was only 3 and her brother barely a few weeks old on the day when their mother, Eazay Rogers, became one of 21 people who ...