"We keep on winning!" The crowd thundered its approval and Jesse smiled. It was May 3, primary election night in the District of Columbia, and Jesse Jackson had just won 80 percent of the vote.
Columns
Joe Lynch 7-01-1988
Last summer the sight of millions of Koreans fighting in the streets for democracy riveted the world. This summer the eyes of the world will be focused again on South Korea.
Danny Duncan Collum 7-01-1988
As this is written, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese is still hunkered down in his bunker on Constitution Avenue, desperately defending his position as the nation's top law enforcement official against mounting charges of corruption.
Jim Wallis 7-01-1988
During June 14-16, an expected 40,000 Southern Baptists will gather in San Antonio, Texas, for their annual conference. It promises to be a real showdown.
Danny Duncan Collum 6-01-1988
When the Sojourners editorial staff sat down last fall to map out our coverage of the 1988 presidential campaign, it was clear that the old theme of "religion and politics" would again be part of the story.
Heather Dean 6-01-1988
We have to make sure that we don't become so inflamed by the injustices around us that we destroy our own happiness and burn out.
Vicki Kemper 6-01-1988
Life is more than breath, and the casualties of the contra war also include people will shattered dreams.
Joe Lynch 6-01-1988
For seven days the deaf students of Gallaudet University waged on of the most articulate and well-publicized protests.
Jim Wallis 5-01-1988
It is indeed a risky thing to write an autobiography. But Daniel Berrigan has been doing risky things for most of his life.
Joyce Hollyday 5-01-1988
It was a decade ago that several members of Sojourners Community temporarily moved into an apartment building with a neighborhood family to try to preserve six low-income apartments there.
Jim Wallis 5-01-1988
The white government of South Africa had just outlawed the activities of 17 organizations, including the two-million-member United Democratic Front, which have been leading the struggle against apartheid.
Joe Lynch 5-01-1988
In Panama, the paths of drug trafficking and U.S. foreign policy have crossed in the person of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega -- and the Reagan administration now wants Noriega out of power.
Vicki Kemper 4-01-1988
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was widely criticized in this country for his response to the U.S. House of Representatives' February 3 vote against contra aid.
Danny Duncan Collum 4-01-1988
The Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank has raged for two months, with no signs of abating in the near future.
Joe Lynch 4-01-1988
Through the work of Walk in Peace, Carolyn, Max, and Don, along with others at Jubilee, have responded to the U.S. government's commitment to maintain the contra war.
Joyce Hollyday 4-01-1988
On October 29, 1987, Pamela Montgomery stood next to Washington, D.C.'s mayor as 1,500 people gave her a standing ovation.