Acting
Jesse Jackson
1941-10-08 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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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The Daily Show
Saturday Night Live
Real Time with Bill Maher
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
LA 92
Explained
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
A Different World
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
4 Little Girls
Baseball
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
BaadAsssss Cinema
Fantastic Lies
Movie credits · 65
South to Black Power
Loudmouth
El otro Rey de Chicago
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Bernie Blackout
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Chicago at the Crossroad
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
I Am MLK Jr.
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
LA 92
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Crashing the Party
Fantastic Lies
We Are Many
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
A Man's Story
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Michael Jackson Memorial
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Anecdotes about Fidel
The Day the Troubles Began
Ballou
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
BaadAsssss Cinema
Last Party 2000
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
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Hollywood Black
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Obama
Shut Up and Dribble
Explained
Velshi
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Robins
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
Tanner on Tanner
Real Time with Bill Maher
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Democracy Now!
The Chris Rock Show
The Daily Show
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Baseball
Tanner '88
A Different World
Not Necessarily the News
Saturday Night Live
Dinah!
World in Action
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