12/13/2025
What We Should Remember About Jesse Jackson:
Reporters Who Covered Jackson’s Campaigns to Reunite
Our next Journal-isms Roundable, "What We Should Remember about Jesse Jackson," will be simulcast Sunday, Dec 14, at 1 p.m. Eastern, on Facebook. on the "Richard Prince's Journal-isms" page.
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NEW: We will be simulcasting from an historic site in downtown Washington. Those who can be in D.C. then are welcome to join the in-person group if you notify us in advance here or a jroundtable5 (at) gmail.com
Jesse Jackson’s recent hospitalization thrust him back into the headlines, and we hope to jog memories, assess Jackson’s place in history and discuss the effect of Jackson’s campaigns on journalists of color.
Among those who plan to be in the room are:
A’Lelia Bundles, who covered Jackson’s 1984 campaign as a producer for NBC News.
Leroy Chapman, editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who shares the same hometown as Jackson, Greenville, S.C. “Born a mile from each other. Met him when I was in high school,” he said.
Eric Easter, campaign staffer and spokesman for Jackson during his 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns; he recently wrote “The Energy and Impact of Jesse Jackson” on Substack.
Hazel Trice Edney, president and CEO of Trice Edney Communications; editor-in-chief of Trice Edney News Wire (Black press), covered the 1988 Jackson campaign for the Richmond (Va.) Afro as it went to Richmond, and on other occasions.
Michael Frisby, who covered Jackson for the Boston Globe during the 1988 campaign..
Hermene Hartman, publisher at Hartman Publishing, Chicago; publisher, N’Digo; Jesse Jackson mentee.
Kevin Merida, who has covered and written about Jackson over the years, including in 1984, for the Dallas Morning News and the Washington Post.
Marilyn Milloy, who covered the Jackson campaign in 1984 and 1988 for Newsday.
Sylvester Monroe, who covered the 1984 and 1988 campaigns for Newsweek and wrote about Jackson’s legacy for the Morgan Global Journalism Review at Morgan State University.
George Derek Musgrove, a historian who is studying Black political conventions and is co-author of “Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital.” He spoke at our 2017 holiday party at the Newseum.
Marquita Pool-Eckert, who covered the 1984 campaign as senior producer for CBS News
Barbara Reynolds, author of “Jesse Jackson, the Man, the Myth and the Movement,” in 1975, which was revised 10 years later as “Jesse Jackson, America’s David.” She also covered both presidential campaigns.
Clarence Page, columnist, Chicago Tribune. He told the Roundtable that In 1969, the year he joined the Tribune, the paper had an unwritten rule that Jackson could not appear on Page One.
Adam Powell, who was co-executive producer (Quincy Jones was the other) of “The Jesse Jackson Show” for Quincy Jones Entertainment and Warner Bros.
Bruce Talamon, Los Angeles-based photographer who traveled with the 1984 and 1988 Jackson campaigns. He displayed some of his photos at our August 2022 Roundtable, when he discussed his images from the campaign as well as of “R&B royalty.”
Jerry Thomas, former director of media relations and former adviser to Jackson; family friend.
Jack White, who covered the 1984 campaign for Time magazine.
Betty Anne Williams, who covered the 1984 campaign for the Associated Press.
Photo shows the late reporters George Curry, left, and Kenneth Walker with Rev. Jesse Jackson as part of his traveling campaign press corps. (Credit: A'Lelia Bundles)
