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Jesse Jackson

1941Greenville, South Carolina, USA55 Movies17 TV Shows

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.

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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

Uncle Tom

Bernie Blackout

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.

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

King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

BaadAsssss Cinema

Last Party 2000

The Subtext of a Yale Education

University, Inc.

4 Little Girls

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

The Journey of the African-American Athlete

The Soul of Stax

Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham

Decade

Route One/USA

In Remembrance of Martin

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

A Decade of Struggle

A Matter of Respect

Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

Save the Children

Wattstax

Nationtime

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Operation Breadbasket

Uptight

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Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

Obama

Shut Up and Dribble

Explained

Joy Behar: Say Anything!

Robins

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

Real Time with Bill Maher

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Chris Rock Show

The Daily Show

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Baseball

Tanner '88

A Different World

Saturday Night Live

Dinah!