Position: Secretary - Agriculture

Type of Appointment/Position: Presidential with Senate confirmation    

Rev. Jesse Jackson, (Sr.)

Rate this Nominee   Current Rating:

• Outrage Lingers Over Teen's Vicious Shooting Death
  Is anybody going to speak up this time? That's what community leaders want to know, after an eighth-grader was shot while riding his bike. CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports the community wants to know why.
• Audreys Society Whirl: 70th annual National Newspaper Publishers Association fêtes Hon. Charles Rangel and Berry Gordy
  *The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) was founded in 1940 when John H. Sengstacke of the Chicago Defender organized a meeting with other African American publishers designed for harmonizing our energies in a common purpose for the benefit of Negro journalists. The group decided to form the National Negro Publishers Association. In 1956, the trade [...]
• Jesse Jackson leads transit prayer rally
  Civil rights advocate, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., was the keynote speaker during a rally in support of a binding referendum to give Clayton County the choice of paying into the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) system.
• UAW president, the Rev. Jackson to launch jobs and peace campaign today
  United Auto Workers President Bob King and civic rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. intend to launch a new campaign that will call for more American jobs, beef up federal enforcement of the workplace and industry, and end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
• UAW President King helps launch rally for jobs, justice and peace
  Detroit -- Newly elected United Auto Workers President Bob King is keeping true to his promise to make the union more aggressive on issues beyond bargaining for worker contracts.
• Roland S. Martin: Anger, frustration on rise over oil disaster
  PORT SULPHUR, La. This Fourth of July weekend, New Orleans will be packed with nearly 300,000 people, as the National Education Association holds its annual convention. Folks from across the country will descend on the Crescent City for three days of partying and concerts, featuring Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Janet Jackson and Earth, Wind & Fire -- all headliners at the 16th annual Essence ...
• Anger, frustration on rise in Gulf disaster
  This Fourth of July weekend New Orleans will be packed with nearly 300,000 people, as the National Education Association holds its annual convention, and folks from across the country descend on the Crescent City for three days of partying and concerts featuring Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Janet Jackson and Earth, Wind & Fire, all headliners at the 16th annual Essence Music Festival.
• Elder Bernice A. King Asks Prayer for SCLC
  NEW YORK (NNPA) - Elder Bernice A. King, elected nine months ago as the first woman president to serve at the helm of the Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has yet to be sworn in due to circumstances that she has described as a sad state of affairs.