Santita Jackson is an American singer and political commentator from Chicago, Illinois. As a singer, Jackson toured with Roberta Flack and performed the National Anthem at President Clinton's Second Inauguration. She now appears regularly on the Fox News Channel and is the host of a television show on The Word Network.^[1][2]

Early Life and Education[link]

Jackson was born in Greensboro, South Carolina in 1963 and raised in Chicago, Illinois. ^[3] She is the oldest daughter of Jacqueline Lavinia Brown Jackson and civil rights leader Rev.Jesse Jackson. Her younger siblings are Jesse, Jonathan,Yusef, Jacqueline and Ashley. ^[4]

Jackson attended Whitney Young High School in Chicago, where she was a National Merit Scholar. While interviewing for college, Jackson was criticized by two Harvard alumni for her father’s political views. Though ultimately accepted to Harvard, she said of the school, “I didn’t feel it was the proper environment after that interview.” ^[5]Jackson subsequently attended Howard University on a full merit scholarship. Following her time at Howard, Jackson worked as an aide to Illinois congressman Gus Savage.^[6][7]

Musical Career[link]

Shortly after college, Jackson moved to New York to pursue a career in music.^[8] She spent over five years touring as a backup singer for Roberta Flack, and later performed with the Opera Ebony company.^[9]

In 1996, Jackson was asked by the family of Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown to perform at his funeral alongside Wynton Marsalis and the Howard University Chorale.^[10]The following year, Jackson performed the National Anthem at Bill Clinton’s second Presidential Inauguration.^[11]

In 2009, Jackson released her first recording project, “Put Your Arms Around the World,” a collaboration with songwriter Janice Kapp Perry, vocalist Chris Willis, and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch.^[12][13]

Political Commentary[link]

Television and Radio[link]

In April 2012, Jackson began working as a political commentator on the Fox News Channel.^[14]Jackson also hosts her own television show on The Word Network.^[15]Earlier, Jackson produced “Upfront with Jesse Jackson” on The Word Network.^[16]

Jackson is the writer, co-host, and executive producer of the nationally syndicated radio show “Keep Hope Alive with Rev. Jesse Jackson.” ^[17]She previously hosted “The Santita Jackson Show” on Chicago’s WVON1690 AM.^[18]

Other Media[link]

Jackson is a founding contributor at theGriot, an MSNBC website dedicated to African American news and opinion.^[19][20]

External Links[link]

• Fox News Bio
• Word Network Bio
• Personal Website

References[link]

Look up Jackson in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Jackson may refer to:

People[link]

Places[link]

Australia[link]

• Jackson, Queensland

United States[link]

• Jackson, Alabama
• Jackson, California
• Jackson, Georgia
• Jackson, Kentucky
• Jackson, Louisiana
• Jackson, Maine
• Jackson, Michigan
• Jackson, Minnesota
• Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital
• Jackson, Missouri
• Jackson, Nebraska
• Jackson, New Hampshire
• Jackson Township, New Jersey
• Jackson, New York
• Jackson, North Carolina
• Jackson, Ohio
• Jackson, Rhode Island
• Jackson, South Carolina
• Jackson, Tennessee
• Jackson, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
• Jackson, Wyoming

Train stations[link]

• Amtrak stations
  • Jackson, Michigan (Amtrak station) (station code JXN)
  • Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station) (station code JAN)
• Chicago Transit Authority stations
  • Jackson/State (CTA station) on the Red Line
  • Jackson/Dearborn (CTA station) on the Blue Line

There are several JACKSON train stations throughout the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority system too.

Geography[link]

Cities, towns and villages[link]

In the United States:

• Jackson Center, Ohio
• Jackson Center, Pennsylvania
• Jackson Junction, Iowa
• Lake Jackson, Texas
• Mount Jackson, Virginia
• Jackson Hole, Wyoming
  • Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

Other geography[link]

• Mount Jackson (disambiguation), several mountains

Canada

• Jackson Inlet, Nunavut
• Jackson Island (Nunavut)

Russian Federation

• Jackson Island, in Franz Josef Land

United States

• Jackson County (disambiguation)
• Jackson metropolitan area, of Jackson, Mississippi
• Jackson Parish, Louisiana
• Jackson Township (disambiguation)

Culture[link]

• Jackson (film), a 2008 American film
• The Jackson Twins, a comic strip
• Jackson (song), written by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler, and made famous by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
• United States twenty-dollar bill, nicknamed for Andrew Jackson, whose picture appears on the obverse side
• Luscious Jackson, an alternative/pop-rock band formed in 1991

Companies[link]

• Jackson National Life, a financial services company
• Jackson Guitars, a manufacturing company
• Jackson Structured Programming

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Juan Williams
Juan Williams at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.
Born	(1954-04-10) April 10, 1954 (age 58) Colón, Panama
Education	Haverford College
Occupation	Author, journalist
Notable credit(s)	CNN Crossfire Fox News Sunday National Public Radio

Juan Williams (born April 10, 1954) is an American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel. He also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Time. He was a senior news analyst for National Public Radio (NPR) from 1999 until October 2010. At The Washington Post for 23 years, Williams has worked as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, White House correspondent and national correspondent.

Williams is the author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (1988),^[1] a companion to the documentary series of the same name about the African-American Civil Rights Movement;Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (2000), a biography of Thurgood Marshall, the first black American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States; and Enough (2006), which was inspired by Bill Cosby's speech at the NAACP gala, and deals with Williams' critique of black leaders in America, and as he puts it the "culture of failure."^[2] Williams has received an Emmy Award and critical praise for his television documentary work and he has won several awards for investigative journalism and his opinion columns.

Early years[link]

Williams attended Haverford College, from which he was graduated with a baccalaureate in philosophy in 1976.^[3]

Career[link]

Washington Post[link]

Some days after Williams wrote a column defending Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas against sworn testimony by Anita Hill charging sexual harassment by Thomas, it was revealed that several female employees of the Post had filed sexual harassment charges against Williams.^[4] The paper took disciplinary action against Williams and published an apology by him.^[5] On November 2, 1991, Williams wrote: "It pained me to learn during the investigation that I had offended some of you. I have said so repeatedly in the last few weeks, and repeat here: some of my verbal conduct was wrong, I now know that, and I extend my sincerest apology to those whom I offended."^[6]

National Public Radio[link]

Williams joined NPR in 2000 as host of the daily afternoon talk show Talk of the Nation.^[3] He then served as senior national correspondent for NPR.^[7] As a result of Williams' commentary on the Fox News Channel, NPR's President and CEO Vivian Schiller requested that Fox stop identifying him as an NPR host in 2009. NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard maintained that: "Williams tends to speak one way on NPR and another on Fox."^[8] Williams' comment on January 26, 2009, to Bill O’Reilly and Mary Katharine Ham, while appearing on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor, triggered the move.^[8]

NPR terminated his contract on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, two days after he made remarks on The O'Reilly Factor.^[9] He had commented, "Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."^[10] According to NPR, the remarks were "inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR." As to the reason for the termination of Williams' contract, NPR’s President and CEO Vivian Schiller offered the following comment: "News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts..."^[11] On October 21, 2010, Schiller told an audience at the Atlanta Press Club that Williams' feelings about Muslims should be between him and "his psychiatrist or his publicist—take your pick."^[12] Schiller later apologized stating, "I spoke hastily and I apologize to Juan and others for my thoughtless remark."^[13]

Some observers have questioned whether NPR actually fired Williams for making the comments on Fox News, as opposed to making them in another forum.^[14] William Saletan of Slate.com compared the Williams situation to that of Shirley Sherrod, saying that both Sherrod and Williams had their words taken out of context in a way that made them appear racist and led to the loss of their jobs, except that Williams was victimized by liberals, rather than conservatives as in Sherrod's case.^[15] Saletan said that while Williams' confessed fears of Muslims were "unsettling", the context was Williams' argument that such fears should not be used to curtail the rights of Muslims or anyone else, and that Williams consistently argued that Muslims in general should not be blamed for the terrorist activities of Muslim extremists.^[15] NPR has been criticized by Williams and others for practicing a double standard in the firing, compared to their not firing Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg and other NPR reporters and analysts for their opinionated statements.^[16][17]

Fox News Channel[link]

He has been a Fox News Contributor since 1997.^[14] He has appeared on Special Report with Bret Baier and FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace. He also regularly appears on The O'Reilly Factor and has served as a guest host in O'Reilly's absence.^[18] After NPR announced his termination from their network in October 2010, Fox News offered him a new $2 million (a "considerable" raise^[19]), three-year contract and an expanded role at their network that includes a regular guest-host role Friday nights on The O'Reilly Factor.^[20]

Following his firing from NPR, Williams appeared on The O'Reilly Factor and discussed his thoughts on how his role at Fox played into NPR's decision: "I don't fit in their box. I'm not predictable black liberal. You [O'Reilly] were exactly right when you said you know what this comes down to. They were looking for a reason to get rid of me because I'm appearing on Fox News. They don't want me talking to you."^[20]

Television[link]

Williams is the recipient of an Emmy Award for his work in television documentary writing and has earned critical praise for a series of television documentaries including Politics: The New Black Power, A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom, Civil Rights and The Press, Riot to Recovery and Dying for Healthcare.^[18]

Williams' 1988 book, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954–65, was written with the Blackside production team^[21] as a companion to the first season of the PBS series Eyes on the Prize. His 2003 book, This Far by Faith, is also a companion to a PBS series.^[22]

Williams is a contributor to a number of national magazines, including Fortune, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Ebony magazine, TIME and GQ and frequents a wide range of television programs including ABC's Nightline, Washington Week on PBS, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.^[18]

Williams has spoken at the Smithsonian’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, which ended legal segregation in public schools, and was selected by the United States Census Bureau as moderator of its first program beginning its 2010 effort. He has received honorary doctorates from Lafayette College, Wittenberg University, and Long Island University, among other institutions.^[23][24][25]

Personal life[link]

Williams married Susan Delise in July, 1978. They are the parents of one daughter, Rae, and two sons, Antonio ("Tony") and Raphael.^[26] Tony, who was a Senate page and intern for GOP Senator Strom Thurmond from 1996 to 1997, was a speechwriter and legislative correspondent for Republican Senator Norm Coleman from 2004 to 2006; in 2006, Tony ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Council of the District of Columbia, losing to Tommy Wells. The elder Williamses younger son, Raffi, is studying anthropology and playing lacrosse at Haverford College, his father's alma mater in Pennsylvania.^[27]

Juan Williams has been active on the Haverford College Board of Managers, in the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, in the Washington Journalism Center, and in the New York Civil Rights Coalition.^[3]

Awards[link]

Williams has received many awards, including honorary doctorates from Haverford College and State University of New York.^[28]

• Front Page Award, Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild (1979)
• Education Writers of America (1979)
• Columnist of the Year, Washingtonian (1982)
• Emmy Award (1989)
• Outstanding Memorial Book, Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States
• Best National Book, Time
• Political commentary award, American Association of University Women

Selected bibliography[link]

• Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. Penguin (Non-Classics). 1988. ISBN 0-14-009653-1. 
• Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. Three Rivers Press. 2000. ISBN 0-8129-3299-4. 
• This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience. Harper Paperbacks. 2003. ISBN 0-06-093424-7. 
• I'll Find a Way or Make One : A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. HarperCollins. 2004. ISBN 0-06-009453-2. 
• My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience. Sterling. 2005. ISBN 1-4027-2233-8. 
• Black Farmers in America. The University Press of Kentucky. 2006. ISBN 0-8131-2399-2. 
• Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It. Three Rivers Press. 2007. ISBN 0-307-33824-X. 
• Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate. Crown Publishing Group. 2011. ISBN 0-307-95201-0. 

References[link]

External links[link]

• Juan Williams: Fox News Biography
• A Conversation with Juan Williams — Video from researchchannel.org
• Booknotes interview with Williams on Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, October 11, 1998.
• In Depth interview with Williams, August 2, 2009
• C-SPAN Q&A interview with Williams, July 31, 2011

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Angela McGlowan is a political commentator and CEO of Political Strategies & Insights (PSI), a government affairs, political strategy, public relations, and advocacy consulting firm based in Oxford, Mississippi, with an office in Washington, D.C. In early 2010, McGlowan announced her candidacy for Congress in Mississippi's 1st congressional district to challenge incumbent Democrat Travis Childers.^[1] She lost in the June 2 party primaries.^[2]

She attended the University of Mississippi, where she earned a B.A. in public administration with an emphasis in criminal justice and political science.^[3] McGlowan is of mixed heritage African American, Native American, and English descent.^{[4][broken citation]}

McGlowan began her government affairs expertise by serving as government and public affairs manager for Steve Wynn's, Mirage Resorts. During her tenure, she participated in lobbying initiatives with the American Gaming Association (AGA) that laid the foundation for Mirage Resorts latest gaming properties, Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi. She also developed Mirage Resorts advocacy and community outreach programs for both Las Vegas and Biloxi.^[5]

McGlowan served as Director of Outreach for the Better America Foundation, an organization founded by Senator Bob Dole. She served as legislative/press aide to both Representative Roscoe Bartlett (R-6th Dist. Maryland), and Representative John Ensign (R-1st Dist. Nevada). She also served as publicist to Ensign's successful re-election campaign in 1996.^[6]

McGlowan currently serves as a political and business analyst for both Fox News and Fox Business Network. Her book, Bamboozled: How Americans Are Being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda, placed eighth on the Washington Area Bestseller List of the Washington Post for the week of Sunday, April 22, 2007.^[7]

On February 8, 2010, McGlowan announced her candidacy for Congress in Mississippi's 1st congressional district to challenge incumbent Democrat Travis Childers.^[8] She subsequently lost the Republican primary to Mississippi State Senator Alan Nunnelee. McGlowan, who received 15% of the vote, came in third, behind to Nunnelee with 52% and Henry Ross with 33%.^[9]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• McGlowan for Congress
• FoxNews.com Bio
• News, Biography, Photos and Video
• Angela McGlowan at the Internet Movie Database

Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity at King of Prussia Mall (2004)
Born	(1961-12-30) December 30, 1961 (age 50) New York City, New York
Nationality	American
Occupation	Radio host/television host, political commentator, author
Employer	Citadel Broadcasting, Fox News Channel
Known for	Political commentary
Religion	Roman Catholic
Spouse	Jill Rhodes Hannity
Parents	Hugh J. and Lillian F. Hannity
Website
Hannity.com

Sean Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is a television host, author, and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks. Hannity also hosts a cable news show, Hannity, on Fox News Channel. Hannity has written three New York Times–bestselling books:^[1][2] Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism, Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism, and Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda.

Personal background[link]

Hannity is the son of Hugh J. and Lillian F. Hannity. His paternal and maternal grandparents immigrated from Ireland. He has two sisters. He grew up in Franklin Square, New York ^[3] and attended Sacred Heart Seminary in Hempstead, New York during his middle school years and St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary high school in Uniondale, New York.^[4] Hannity dropped out of New York University and Adelphi University.^[5][6]

Professional life[link]

Hannity in a radio and television interview with Vice President of the U.S. Dick Cheney

Hannity hosted his first talk radio show in 1989 at the volunteer college station at UC Santa Barbara, KCSB-FM, while working as a general contractor. The show aired for 40 hours of air time;^[7] Regarding his first show, Hannity has said, "I wasn't good at it. I was terrible."^[8] Hannity's weekly show on KCSB was canceled after less than a year by station managers. This was after two shows featuring the book The AIDS Coverup: The Real and Alarming Facts about AIDS by Gene Antonio; among other remarks made during the broadcast, Hannity told a lesbian caller "I feel sorry for your child".^[9] The station later reversed its decision to dismiss Hannity due in part to a campaign conducted by the Santa Barbara Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Hannity decided against returning to KCSB.^[10]

After leaving KCSB, Hannity placed an ad in radio publications presenting himself as "the most talked about college radio host in America." Radio station WVNN in Athens, Alabama (part of the Huntsville market) then hired him to be the afternoon talk show host.^[7] From Huntsville, he moved to WGST in Atlanta in 1992, filling the slot vacated by Neal Boortz, who had moved to competing station WSB. In September 1996 Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes hired the then relatively unknown Hannity to host a television program under the working title Hannity and LTBD ("liberal to be determined").^[11] Alan Colmes was then hired to co-host and the show debuted as Hannity & Colmes.

Later that year Hannity left WGST for New York, where WABC had him substitute for their afternoon drive time host during Christmas week. In January 1997, WABC put Hannity on the air full-time, giving him the late night time slot. WABC then moved Hannity to the same drive time slot he had filled temporarily a little more than a year earlier. Hannity has been on WABC's afternoon time slot since January 1998.^[12]

Conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel, in their book Common Ground, describe Hannity as a leader of the pack among broadcasting political polarizers, which following James Q. Wilson they define as those who have "an intense commitment to a candidate, a culture, or an ideology that sets people in one group definitively apart from people in another, rival group."^[13]

Television[link]

Hannity was a co-host of Hannity & Colmes, an American political "point-counterpoint"-style television program on the Fox News Channel featuring Hannity and Alan Colmes as co-hosts. Hannity presented the conservative point of view with Colmes providing the liberal viewpoint. Critics argued that the show highlighted Hannity's views and those of conservative guests over Colmes' and those of liberal guests.^[14]

Hannity had on air clashes with show guests such as Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer of Human Life International, who challenged Hannity on his public dissent from the Catholic Church on the issue of contraception.^[15][16] Hannity stated that if the Catholic Church were to excommunicate him over the issue, he would join Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church.^[17]

In January 2007, Hannity began a new Sunday night television show on Fox News, Hannity's America.

In November 2008, Colmes announced his departure from Hannity & Colmes. After the show's final broadcast on January 9, 2009, Hannity took over the time slot with his own new show, Hannity, which has a format similar to Hannity's America

Radio[link]

Hannity's radio program is a conservative political talk show that features Hannity's opinions and ideology related to current issues and politicians. The Sean Hannity Show began national syndication on September 10, 2001 on over 500 stations nationwide.^[18] As of spring 2008, the program is heard by over 13.25 million listeners a week.^[19] In 2004, Hannity signed a $25 million five-year contract extension with ABC Radio (now Citadel Media) to continue the show through 2009.^[20] The program was made available via Armed Forces Radio Network in 2006.^[21] In June 2007, ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Communications^[22] and in the summer of 2008, Hannity was signed for a $100 million five-year contract.^[23]

In January 2007, Clear Channel Communications signed a groupwide three-year extension with Hannity on over 80 stations.^[24] The largest stations in the group deal included KTRH Houston, KFYI Phoenix, WPGB Pittsburgh, WKRC Cincinnati, WOOD Grand Rapids, WFLA Tampa, WOAI San Antonio, WLAC Nashville, and WREC Memphis.

The opening theme music for the Sean Hannity Show is "Independence Day" by Martina McBride followed by "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor.

Books[link]

Hannity is the author of three books. The first two, Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism and Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism, were published through ReganBooks. Both of these books reached the nonfiction New York Times bestseller list, the second of which stayed there for five weeks.^[25][26] Hannity has stated that he is too busy to write many books,^[25] and dictated a lot of his own two books into a tape recorder while driving in to do his radio show.^[27]

Hannity wrote his third book, Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda, which was released by HarperCollins on March 30, 2010.^[28] The book became Hannity's third New York Times Bestseller.^[29]

Freedom Concerts[link]

Since 2003, Hannity has hosted country music–themed "Freedom Concerts" to raise money for charity.^[30] According to WHIO, more than $9 million has been raised by the concerts and by WHIO listeners as of 2009.^[31]

Artists such as Charlie Daniels,^[32][33] Billy Ray Cyrus,^[32] Hank Williams, Jr., Ted Nugent, Montgomery Gentry,^[33][34] Martina McBride, Buddy Jewell, LeAnn Rimes, Lee Greenwood,^[32][33] Michael W. Smith,^[32] and Avalon^[33] have headlined at these concerts. Between musical sets, the concerts include short intermissions with politically conservative speakers such as Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Mark Levin, Newt Gingrich, Jon Voight, and Rudy Giuliani. Headlining names for the 2010 concert series were Lynyrd Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels, and Michael W. Smith.^[31][35]

Awards and honors[link]

• Hannity received a Marconi Award in 2003 and 2007 as the Network Syndicated Personality of the Year from the National Association of Broadcasters.^[36]
• In 2009, Talkers Magazine listed Hannity as #2 on their list of the 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America.^[37] The same magazine gave Hannity their Freedom of Speech Award in 2003.^[38]
• In 2005, Jerry Falwell, chancellor of Liberty University, awarded Hannity an honorary degree.^[39]
• Radio and Records magazine has honored Hannity with the National Talk Show Host of the Year Award for three consecutive years.^[40]

Bibliography[link]

• Hannity, Sean (2002). Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism, ReganBooks, ISBN 0-06-051455-8.
• Hannity, Sean (2004). Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism, ReganBooks, ISBN 0-06-058251-0.
• Hannity, Sean (2010). Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda, Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 0-06-200305-4.

References[link]

External links[link]

Conservatism portal

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