KBLA Talk 1580
The Jesse Jackson Jr. Show
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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Jan 26, 2026
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Beyond the Books 02.01.2026 40:00
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 the private to the public to the home schooled, and how does an entrepreneur with a book store show other...
Can We Stiil Believe 21.12.2025 40:03
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 remember those who do and don’t? Is it fair to group the members of one race in to one voice? Is it worth...
DR. KING SAID SO FIRST...DEMOCRACY, WHERE ARE YOU? 21.12.2025 40:53
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 NOW. AND WITHOUT FLICKING A COIN TO A "BEGGAR" WE FALL FAR SHORT AND INDEED DO NOT PRACTICE A TRUE DEM...
DEMOCRACY'S DILEMMA FROM THE SHORES OF AMERICA 21.12.2025 40:07
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 IN THAT, COULD NEVER LIVE OUT OUR PURPOSE AND MISSION...BECAUSE...IT IS ALSO HUNG WITH CAPITALISM AND A...
“Issue after Issue” 18.12.2025 39:48
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.
The Trek to Health with Care vs The Military Budget 18.12.2025 38:15
Jesse Jackson Jr welcomes "Conversations with Atiba on health care that Americans cannot afford versus the military budget that just won’t stop.
"Chiefly, Never Was Justice, Just an Agenda" 17.12.2025 40:48
"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 Justice Roberts, the December 14th Report from Black Votes Matter and the expected number of seats in je...
What We’re Listening For Is Not “Plausible Deniability” 17.12.2025 39:58
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 Chief of Staff. In an overall assessment of what it will take moving forward, the tenacious duo pin...
Over the Air Waves, Positive Energy Vibrates at High Level 16.12.2025 38:31
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 first, encouraged yourself. With a shout out to KBLA’s, Tavis Smiley, the three set the weekend off with mu...
Observe But Don’t Absorb. 16.12.2025 41:14
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 - Bishop Joseph Tolton and Bishop, OC Smith join Jesse Jr and Gina A. Towns on “Reflectivity,” as they review...
Jesse Jackson Jr tackles the Health Care Industry 12.12.2025 1:19:31
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 institution itself, which allows for congressional-sanctioned kickbacks. What is the fix for that? And wha...
Michael Cohen Joins Jesse Jr and the 2 Johns Part 2 11.12.2025 39:08
The discussion on The Donald’s presidential antics and what “proximity” to him can mean and yield, domestically and internationally, continues.
“Michael Cohen Joins Jesse Jr and the 2 Johns” Part 1 11.12.2025 39:23
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 hits each ball pitched across the catcher’s mound. This conversation, both funny and true, is a grand sl...
Putting down the Grievance Sword to pick up the Sword of Righteousness 03.12.2025 39:41
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 our right to Vote, that our best exercise toward justice for all. America will not take this lying down,...
The Long Arm of the Law is Gonna Get You 03.12.2025 38:43
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 for lawlessness in the waterways of our world. At the show close, Dyson ranks Reverend Jackson in the top...
The Righteous Justice of Protest: What Jesus Would Do 02.12.2025 38:55
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 there is always welcome room for the leadership of the “just”…none quite like the revolutionary Jesus…but...
Season 2 & a Boycott or 2 02.12.2025 42:41
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.
National Consideration of Caregiving at Thanksgiving 30.11.2025 38:37
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 family care and compensation.
Historical Thanksgiving & Our Amended Participation 30.11.2025 39:46
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 nation still struggling to find its truest self, we must find gratitude, even when the days get tough.
Technical Justice: Judges Holding the Line for Checks and Balances 25.11.2025 39:35
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.
Nursing not a Profession? Sickening. 25.11.2025 39:19
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.
No doubt, Dr. KIng would speak out - USA ID 21.11.2025 42:09
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 with people who are hungry, thirsty and need only the basics to express gratitude with tears. There is...
The Soft Power of Sharing 21.11.2025 39:40
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 store, if you move out of position in line, you wait longer before you can leave to move on to your nex...
"The Moves of Jesse Jackson on the Corporate Court” - Altadena Fire 20.11.2025 41:23
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 communities according to an investigative report by NPR. How would Reverend Jackson have handled this? The answer...
Keeping Our Eyes On the Prize 20.11.2025 34:15
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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