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The Jesse Jackson Jr. Show
by KBLA Talk 1580
Jesse Jackson Jr., who served 17 years in the U.S. Congress, gives you his unflinching analysis with input from trusted contributors, news makers, and everyday people impacted by the headlines.
Episodes
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America's Dream, Will we Wake Up?
Dr. Ted Williams Closes out the Martin Luther King Jr. focus and what it means to Americans today. The conversation focuses on Kings “I have a dream speech“ and his study of Abraham Lincoln, as he caused America to task on the idea and premise of its founding document. It is a unique analysis and...
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America Withdraws While It Expands
Dr. Nii-Quartelai Quartey Joints, Jesse Jackson Jr, and Gina A.Towns as the Trump administration Withdrawals from 60 organizations, including the world health organization.
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The Triple Threat Response: King’s Essential Non-violence.
Dr. King curator and weekly guest host, Dr Johnny Mack, and Jesse Jr weigh King’s Triple Evil threat on America’s historical scale where militarism has taken its toll in perpetuating racism, abroad and domestically, even right now as ICE is cleared to enter homes without warrant, in defiance of...
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Consider Dr. King’s Criteria: CAN WE MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER?
Atiba and Jesse Jr engage a provocatively thought-provoking conversation posing the question of how we move forward considering King‘s triple threat observation - racism, military on materialism. Atiba poses the idea that we must move together while Jesse questions America’s stumbling block of...
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America’s Reckoning Coming
Rev Dr Todd Yeary ESQ puts paint strokes on the sketch that in motion, pointing out that America is not self-sustaining model and was not built that way. It requires relationships because it is consumption-based, and in this hour is getting full of herself. It needs the global economy and as…
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It’s our Reality and Responsibility
James Felton Keith joined Dr. PL DeSilva and Jessie Jr in a reflection of Dr. King and the elimination of federal fines that have supported organizations doing great work. Responding to President Clinton’s call for someone needing to stand up in this day, They called on him and remain unafraid to...
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His Truth Is Marching On
Attorney Barbara Arnwine came ready to talk about her pride in young people stepping up and the need to return to Dr King’s speeches for those who’ve never heard, as well as those who are very aware.
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Here Comes the Judge
Retired Judge and Pastor Wendell Griffen minced no words in his conversation with Jesse Jr on the unpopular MLK in the last year of his life, and the responsibility we bare right now because he was…we are. King, he says, was clearly a prophet, marked as the prophets of old.
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An Hour Fit for a King - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the most important days of the year for MLK curator, Dr. Johnny MACK And Jesse Junior to convene, and the subject? King’s speech, “Beyond Vietnam.” What we can clean from the Speech where King makes no apologies and admonishes everyone that they never really knew him, his ministry, or his...
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The Music in Our Movement
Grammy winner and Latin jazz flautist, Nestor Torres joins Jessie Junior and Atiba for conversation about the power of music and moving people towards Justice and building relationship beyond what we think we see. On the birthday of Dr. King, he was a drum major too, as he marched to the beat of...
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Dr. Henia Dakkak Joins Jessie to Talk about Palestine, Religion, and Faith
Dr Henia Dakkak stays over from the first hour to continue the longer history of Palestine and the long ordeal that is about land, faith, religion and the age old tale of love for God or money. Later, Jesse is joined by show producer and director, Gina A.Towns, and Rev, Dr Todd Yeary’s plane…
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Has the Children of The Gaza Strip been Left to Die?
Dr. Henia Dakkak joins Jesse Jr and Dr PL De Silva for some real talk about what’s still going on in The Gaza Strip. It’s not bombs, but the bombshell of starving, orphaned children, women dying in childbirth, disease with no health care - children not in school, no intention to help them…
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A Time to Break Silence
Activist policy, Liz King, joins Jesse Jr A conversation over the outrage that “might makes right” and the importance of knowing your rights, and the beginning of people walking away from the MAGA movement.
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The Billionaire’s Choice and Back to Haiti 2010
Rev. Teresa Hord Owens and Jesse Jr discuss the difference in character and in deference that billionaires can make as Bill Gates, the former spouse of Melinda Gates’ who funds her Foundation, give her another chunk of money for good use. Later, Haitian American and Red Cross volunteer, Millie...
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Putting People First & Remembering Haiti 2010
Ernest Crim III and Jesse Jr conclude that there still may be some moral bones in the body of our Congress. Putting people first emerges from the inside of the body, now they will fight it out. With the anniversary of the Haiti earthquake of 2010 as a history lesson in Mr. Crime’s class, we can...
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Mammas of Many Movements for the Generations They Bare
Civic Strategies President, Diallo Brooks, joins Jessie Jr and Gina A.Towns for a discussion on the mothers who dawn movements that change trajectories…and the fear, fight and hope we take with us following their lead as we create the future in the right now. what we share with our children from...
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The Cause and Case for Coalition
ICJUSTICEC President, Bishop Joseph Tolton joins Jr and Gina A. Towns with “freedom coalitions” fresh on his mind as he’s coalescing around Trump’s withdrawing of the US from 66 international organizations/treaties/agreements- the Permanent Forum for People of African Descent being one of them....
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The Decay of the House Is On Moral Grounds
Johnny Mack joins Jesse Jr on the weekly segment, “The World House,” where Kingian thought, philosophy, spirituality and the law meet to give us guide.” From Venezuela to Nigeria to LA and Chicago, our behavior presence of mind and heart matter in this moment.
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No Matter How We Get There, We End Up in the Same Place
Weekly contributor, Atiba, joins Jesse Jr in discussing the Minnesota mess-ups. It seems that what would be a quiet state keeps showing up in the national spotlight, with a push toward the bend of the nation’s moral arc. In the end, we are people…human beings with the same emotions and needs…
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This is more than you think
Atty Barbara Arnwine is on the grind as she ofollows up on Jesse Junior‘s conversation With his brother Johnathan, Congressman to Congressman.
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The Congressional Summary: We’re Back!
Congressman Jonathan Jackson joins Jesse Jr, for a candid conversation between brothers, well rounded with details about how the new year starting and what we can expect.
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Title: This is Not Politics - It's About What Our Faith Demands
As President and General Minister of a major denomination, Rev. Terri Hord Owens says it plainly to Jesse Jr as they review footage of Americans across the country pouring into the streets for protest once again, as the new year dawns. This time, it's Venezuela and the multiple threats.…
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Title: Kings, Kingdoms & The Real Deal
"It is still unbelievable" is the statement of the day as "Ernest Crim III in Mr. Crim's Class" spells out the millennial shock over the events of the 2025 Christmas Holiday and into the new year with Jesse Jr. It's not just bullying, it's a jaw-dropping display that has domestic and global...
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What in the Country Happened- 2025 In Review
Liz King and Jesse Jr cover the jaw-dropping political landscape of 2025, the status into the 2nd year of a presidential term, and the position we start for ready…set …go in 2026. tty Barbara Arnwine, Professor PL DeSilva, and Professor and theologian, Ted Williams join Jesse Jr in what is surely...
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“Beyond the Books “ Part 2
Rev. Terri Hord Owens joins Jesse Jr, Atiba, Diallo Brooks. and Dr. Tenia Davis continue an engaging conversation on learning history, leadership, and the power of creating a legacy of literature, family and community where survival depends on it and thriving is because of it.
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Beyond the Books
Jesse Jr is LIVE and on location with Atiba, Diallo Brooks, and bookstore owner, Dr. Tenia Davis from Homewood IL, a Chicago suburb. much like most thriving communities just outside of major cities where Blacks are part of a diverse economy and culture. What is the next step for education from…
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Can We Stiil Believe
Gina A. Towns joins Jesse Jr after a week of discussions to explore the idea of America, the framers of the Constitution, such as Franklin and Adams, and in particular, the influence of Thomas Paine, who spoke out against slavery. Will people speak out on the injustices of today? Will history...
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DR. KING SAID SO FIRST...DEMOCRACY, WHERE ARE YOU?
DR JOHNNY MACK TALKS WITH JESSE JR ABOUT OUR "CLINGING ON" TO THE AGE OF AN ITSY BITSY STRING OF EXISTENCE, AND WE DO EVERYTHING TO HOLD ON...THE STRUGGLE FROM WEEK TO WEEK PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK IS INDEED OF RESTRUCTURE ..THE PROCESS. THIS IS WHAT KING ARGUES. THIS MAKES DR. KING RELEVANT THEN AND...
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DEMOCRACY'S DILEMMA FROM THE SHORES OF AMERICA
DR. AZZA KARAM DISCUSSES HER OP-ED, "THE FULL STORY OF THE FAILURE OF THE PROJECT TO SPREAD DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD" WITH JESSE JR AND HER OTHER HALF, DR. PL DE sILVA THIS IS THE ARROGANCE THAT GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD RESENT. "WE ARE AMERICANS" INHERENTLY MEANS THAT WE ARE "RIGHT" OR "BETTER" AND…
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“Issue after Issue”
Rev. Dr. Todd S. Yeary Esq joins Jesse Jr for "The Politics of Our Faith." and Rev. Dr. Attorney Yeary is just the right voice to join in the big picture of what today’s news means for our faith and future.
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The Trek to Health with Care vs The Military Budget
Jesse Jackson Jr welcomes "Conversations with Atiba on health care that Americans cannot afford versus the military budget that just won’t stop.
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"Chiefly, Never Was Justice, Just an Agenda"
"On the Grind" with the tenacious leadership of Attorney and Transformative Justice Coalition Founder and President, Barbara Arnwine Esq, who keeps us abreast and ready for action each Tenacious Tuesday in the second hour. Jesse Jr queries Barbara about the book she's currently reading on Chief...
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What We’re Listening For Is Not “Plausible Deniability”
Policy Expert and Justice Advocate, Liz King returns to a 1st & 3rd of the month slot on The Jesse Jackson Jr Show for the "Lighting It Up" series as she and Jesse Jr assess the Susie Wiles interview in Vanity Fair Magazine that revealed some fairly scathing observations and opinions from the WH...
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Over the Air Waves, Positive Energy Vibrates at High Level
Veteran radio host, RamonSki Luv joins Jesse Jr and Gina A.Towns for a celebration of a career that has spanned over 30 years, inspiring and ministering to people through the airwaves. Jesse Jr, and the musical two, reflect on being a source to encourage people from a place where you have to…
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Observe But Don’t Absorb.
In an expanded coverage of a conference that took place earlier in the day entitled, “The Global Anti-Black Agenda of White Christian Nationalism - "Re-segregating America; Recolonizing Africa" - a VIRTUAL TOWN HALL FROM CAPE TOWN TO CHICAGO FROM ABIDJAN TO ATLANTA FROM NAIROBI TO NEW YORK…
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Jesse Jackson Jr tackles the Health Care Industry
It’s "Worldwide" with PL De Silva PhD and special guest, Shiva Ayyadurai PhD, inventor of the email and healthcare expert. This jaw-dropping discussion on the policies and news around the world that impacts us every daily, laid our healthcare system, bare and naked from pharmaceuticals to the...
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Michael Cohen Joins Jesse Jr and the 2 Johns Part 2
The discussion on The Donald’s presidential antics and what “proximity” to him can mean and yield, domestically and internationally, continues.
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“Michael Cohen Joins Jesse Jr and the 2 Johns” Part 1
When it comes to The Donald, hardly no one on earth knows him better than Michael Cohen. From the effects of the Big Ugly to the Venezuelan boats to the open grifting going on across the White House cabinet landscape, Jesse Jr leads the conversation with John Digles and John Lesiotis as Michael...
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Putting down the Grievance Sword to pick up the Sword of Righteousness
Rev. Dr. Eric, Michael Dyson joins Jesse Jr and weekly host, Barbara Arnwine, Esq. What an exchange took place on what we can do right now! When determining the factor of exercising the mind…make it up to do it. Our body…to get up and do it. Our faith…knowing that is within our power. It is in…
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The Long Arm of the Law is Gonna Get You
Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson joinsJesse Jr and contributor, John Lesiotis in a discussion about conscience - Some Republican senators are questioning the legality or criminality of the new department head of war, formally known as the department of defense. No one wants to accept responsibility…
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The Righteous Justice of Protest: What Jesus Would Do
Celebrated theologian and professor, Dr. Obery Hendricks Jr joins Jesse Jr to discuss the positioning and righteousness of leaders in the church as compared to the leaders that Jesus addressed in this hour. After a sober reminiscing over what Rev. Jesse Jackson would do, the conclusion is that...
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Season 2 & a Boycott or 2
Ernest Crim III Join Jesse Jackson Jr as he launches his second year at KBLA. Today also is the anniversary of the Birmingham bus boycott. As they took notes and compared, we find ourselves in a boycott once again. Justice knows no limits and no end. For Justice, there is always a fight.
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National Consideration of Caregiving at Thanksgiving
Atiba, John Digles and Gina A. Towns join Jesse Jr, leading the national conversation on those who need care and the family caregivers who sacrifice to take care of them as they enter the last stages of life. The rescue and fix of America’s health care system must include this consideration for...
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Historical Thanksgiving & Our Amended Participation
from the Amerca’s organized founding, and then there’s the history of Thanksgiving when Europeans initially arrived almost 300 years before Lincoln offered The Thanksgiving Proclamation, FDR changed the date and Congress did its job in declaring the official celebration of Thanksgiving. For a...
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Technical Justice: Judges Holding the Line for Checks and Balances
Rev Terri Hord Owens offers her take on the call for the church to intervene in social justice issues such as health care, with a segue into the justice where things have every potential to be unjust.
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Nursing not a Profession? Sickening.
Anthony Millian joins Jesse Jr in an analysis of the outrageous declassification of several professional degree pursuits that cause further harm to America’s health.
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No doubt, Dr. KIng would speak out - USA ID
Jesse Jr welcomes Dr. Johnny Mack, guest host of “The world house” As they consider Dr. King‘s position on USA ID and our soft power around the world. It’s more than good citizenship for King, it is the difference between the largest military budget in the world and willfully neglecting to share...
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The Soft Power of Sharing
Jesse Junior welcomes weekly host of “Worldwide,” PL DeSilva, PhD And special guest Jay Singh, PhD for a talk about the power of USAID and the peril of discontinuing Humanitarian efforts around the world. As with any sport, game, When you’re injured, someone else takes your place. At the grocery...
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"The Moves of Jesse Jackson on the Corporate Court” - Altadena Fire
Rev. Dr. Todd Yeary, Former RainbowPush chair joins Jesse Jr as they discuss Southern California Edison’s continued refusal to speak with Tavis Smiley and the people of Altadena who lost everything in fires that resulted from the company’s failure to cut the power off as they did other…
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Keeping Our Eyes On the Prize
Atiba joins Jesse Jr for his weekly conversation. This week: Update Jamaica, Jasmin Crockett's direct hit on colleagues across the isle on The Epstien Files, ICE and Americans taking a stand
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Jesse Jackson Jr., who served 17 years in the U.S. Congress, gives you his unflinching analysis with input from trusted contributors, news makers, and everyday people impacted by the headlines.
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