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When justice had a megaphone: The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s life in full voice

Credit: Eric Guo; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:54, 18 May 2010 (UTC), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons URL Media |  Ovetta Wiggins  The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., a civil rights icon, gifted orator, and politician whose presidential campaigns changed the landscape of American politics, died Tuesday, according to NPR. He was 84. Jackson, who was initially diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, died after a more than 10-year […]

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Dr. James Peterson

James Peterson, Ph.D. is a writer, educator, and consultant. Dr. Peterson is the Host of “Evening WURDS” on WURD (900AM and 96.1FM) in Philadelphia, PA. He is the author of several books, including The Hip Hop Underground and African American Culture, Prison Industrial Complex for Beginners, and Hip-Hop Headphones: A Scholar’s Critical Playlist. He is a columnist for The Philadelphia Citizen and has written for Fortune.com, Newsweek.com, The Guardian, The LA Times, Reuters, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, and The Grio. 

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