Why Jesse Jackson's rainbow coalition is the Democrats pathway back to the White House

The leading voice and light of the civil rights movement for generations of Americans, Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. His death comes at a critical moment for the Democrats ahead of the midterm elections, Marc Morial President and CEO of the National Urban League says the party should look to the example of Rev. Jackson when he galvanised the party at the 1984 Democratic National Convention. President Trump’s Board of Peace meets for the first time tomorrow. Australia has been invited to join but so far hasn't RSVP’d. ANU professor of international law Don Rothwell says the meeting in Washington should reveal whether this is a Trump vanity project or an audacious and potentially successful attempt to sideline the UN? Norway’s former deputy minister for foreign affairs Marianne Hagen is one of a coalition of credible leaders, scientists and engineers backing the development of a massive undersea curtain stop the catastrophic collapse of Antarctica’s doomsday glacier.