Derrick Z. Jackson
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Drug industry threatens reform...the gouging, it will become too charitable to say that Big Pharma took Obama for a fool. It will become clear Obama was in bed with Big Pharma all along. Derrick Z. Jackson writes for The Boston Globe and can be reached at jackson@globe.com. In this article: Revenue, Credit Suisse, Pfizer, AARP, Drug industry, Medicare, Cialis, Viagra, and Leukemia |
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Times Union | November 05, 2009
Preserving our wild side
...there is hope. Why, we might even one day restore the flesh and fat to our wild places. Derrick Z. Jackson writes for The Boston Globe. His e-mail address is jackson@globe.com. All Times Union materials copyright 1996-2009, Capital...
In this article: Climate change, Bob Bennett, National Park Service, Lamar Alexander, Maine, Utah, and Alaska
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Wikipedia | September 13, 2009
Derrick Z. Jackson
Derrick Zane Jackson (b. July 31, 1955 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an African American journalist, currently a regular columnist and associate editor for the Boston Globe. Jackson's views are considered liberal, and he often addresses...
In this article: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Simmons College in Boston, Harvard University, Boston Globe, Cambridge, Milwaukee, and Wisconsin
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boston.com - Latest theater and arts news | August 26, 2009
Hail to the chief
...take in "From Iowa to the White House,'' presented by the Museum of African American History. Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson shot images of the Obama presidential campaign in nine states and Washington, D.C., starting in 2007...
In this article: E mail, Obama presidential campaign, Boston Globe, Barack Obama, Oak Bluffs, White House, and Washington, D.C
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Medical News Today | July 15, 2009
Columnist Discusses Lifting Of Needle Exchange Funding Ban
...the House Appropriations Committee and the Subcommittee on Labor, Education, Health and Human Services," Boston Globe columnist Derrick Jackson writes in response to the introduction of legislation by the House Appropriations Committee last...
In this article: Derrick Jackson, Barack Obama, House Appropriations Committee, Medical advice, Ideology, HIV, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and David Obey
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Medical News Today | June 30, 2009
Newsweek, Boston Globe Examine Ways To Combat Mosquito-Borne Illness
...(Underhill, Newsweek, 6/27). Boston Globe Columnist Looks At DDT Home Spraying Debate In Uganda Boston Globe columnist Derrick Jackson looks at household DDT spraying in Uganda to battle malaria, where the country's vice president,...
In this article: Newsweek, Malaria, Derrick Jackson, Dengue fever, Uganda, Insecticide, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Medical News Today | June 17, 2009
Opinion: U.S. Should Double Global Maternal, Child Health Spending; Ban, Chan Want 'Global Solidarity'; Resources For Diabetes, HIV/AIDS
Resources to treat patients living with diabetes in Uganda pale in comparison to HIV/AIDS resources, Boston Globe columnist Derrick Jackson discovered during a recent trip to the city of Mbarara, Uganda, six hours southwest of the capital...
In this article: AIDS, Bill Frist, Diabetes, Derrick Jackson, Ban Ki-moon, Gulf Times, and Psoriasis
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National Public Radio | April 06, 2009
Op-Ed: It's Time To Pay Student Athletes
...title. The winners will get bragging rights, but their school and coach will make a lot of money. Boston Globe columnist Derrick Jackson thinks it's time players saw some of the dividends. "Stop the pimping," he writes in his column,...
In this article: NPR and Derrick Jackson
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San Francisco Chronicle | November 30, 2008
In classroom, Bears must finish what they start
...other students and get the pat on the back. They tend to do much better in the classroom as well." Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson, who has written annually about football graduation rates, doesn't buy that theory. Because of its...
In this article: Cal, Jeff Tedford, NCAA, Pac-10, NFL, Stanford, and Tom Holmoe
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www.washingtonpost.com | December 22, 2007
Racial Undercurrent Is Seen in Clinton Campaign
...they make the same kinds of mistakes that I made that they can get over it and that they can move on. . . ." From columnist Derrick Z. Jackson of the Boston Globe, Dec. 15: "That leaves open as to how far the Clinton campaign, whose poll...
In this article: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Cocaine, Billy Shaheen, and Iowa
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www.washingtonpost.com | August 11, 2005
The Struggle To Think Outside The 'Black' Box
...of columns analyzing, questioning and celebrating the black experience? Meaningless. Chatting at NABJ, Boston Globe columnist Derrick Jackson and I admitted the unadmittable: We aren't "really" black-- or, as Jackson later explained,...
In this article: Derrick Jackson, National Association of Black Journalists, Harvard, God, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Harriet Tubman, and Jacob Lawrence
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Derrick Zane Jackson (b. July 31, 1955 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an African American journalist, currently a regular columnist and associate editor for the Boston Globe.
Jackson's views are considered liberal, and he often addresses politics and racial issues in his twice-weekly column. Jackson is known for his annual columns discussing graduation rates of college football and basketball teams. During each year's March Madness, he devotes several columns to discussing the graduation rates of the participating teams.
Jackson has a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He also had a post-graduate journalism fellowship at Harvard University, and is the recipient of various honorary degrees. He also teaches journalism part-time at Simmons College in Boston.
Jackson is married to local physician and health researcher, Dr. Michelle Holmes; they have two sons. He has served as Scoutmaster and advisor for Boyscout Troop/Crew 56 Cambridge out of the Grace United Methodist Church.
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