All posts tagged: Jesse

Con la voz entrecortada, Jesse Marsch dice que sus jugadores son héroes canadienses

Con la voz entrecortada, Jesse Marsch dice que sus jugadores son héroes canadienses

Published by Sam Flores

IE 11 no es compatible. Para una experiencia óptima, visite nuestro sitio en otro navegador. SIGUIENTE Emociona hasta las lágrimas: Eustáquio, el héroe de Canadá que le dio la clasificación. 02:10 Un gol sobre la hora de Eustáquio coloca a Canadá en Octavos de Final 10:00 Guardado, Salcido y Gurwitz aplauden la victoria canadiense y el papel sudafricano | Todo el Mundial 04:37 Así se vivió el triunfo dramático de Canadá ante Sudáfrica 02:42 Stephen Eustáquio marca un golazo y adelanta a Canadá ante Sudáfrica en los dieciseisavos de final 02:28 El día que James Rodríguez marcó un gol para la historia | Vive el Mundial 01:36 Memo Ochoa: “Disfruto mis últimos momentos con la Selección” | Vive el Mundial 03:09 Valdano lanza una advertencia sobre Argentina y Cabo Verde | Vive el Mundial 04:55 Sudáfrica afina los últimos detalles para el reto más importante ante Canadá 02:32 Canadá llega al estadio para enfrentar a Sudáfrica en los dieciseisavos 05:33 Marquinhos no se confía: “Incluso los equipos más humildes pueden dar la sorpresa en el …

The Day Jesse Jackson Made Me Cry

The Day Jesse Jackson Made Me Cry

Published by Daniella Wilson

In 1988, as the Reverend Jesse Jackson was making his second presidential bid, I left the campaign trail, where I was covering the eventual Democratic nominee, Michael Dukakis, to make a personal pilgrimage to Wichita, Kansas. I had come to see my sick grandfather, Ga-Ga, who was comatose in the hospital and seemed barely there. Day and night, I held his hand hoping he would make it. I knew he had admired Jackson’s first presidential bid in 1984 and the courage—some called it audacity—required to run at all. So I told him about the huge, overwhelmingly white crowds Jackson was drawing in places like Iowa and Wisconsin. There was a refrain Jackson had been using in Iowa to convince audiences he really could win this time: “Great days just keep on coming.” I was not sure if Ga-Ga could hear me, but I repeated the refrain to him, trying anything I could to uplift him as he struggled to hold on to his life. “Great days just keep on coming.” And to my surprise, I …

Do Not Be Cynical About Jesse Jackson

Do Not Be Cynical About Jesse Jackson

Published by José Betancourt

When I was growing up in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, many businesses proudly kept in their windows signs from Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and ’88 presidential runs. He was a revered figure, someone people in D.C. were deeply thankful for. “Nothing will ever again be what it was before,” the writer James Baldwin said after Jackson’s ’84 Democratic National Convention speech. “It changes the way the boy on the street and the boy on Death Row and his mother and his father and his sweetheart and his sister think about themselves. It indicates that one is not entirely at the mercy of the assumptions of this Republic, of what they have said you are, that this is not necessarily who and what you are. And no one will ever forget this moment, no matter what happens now.” Yet when you turned on the television, you saw another Jesse Jackson. This Jesse Jackson was a dangerous man, a radical, a demagogue, someone who thrived off fomenting racial division. To the people around me, Jackson—the reverend and …