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James R. Jordan Sr.
James R. Jordan Sr. (1936-1993), father of Michael Jordan, GE worker murdered July 23, 1993 near Lumberton, NC; Daniel Green and Larry Demery convicted 1996, evidence disputes persist.
James Reeb
James Reeb (1927–1965) was a white Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston beaten to death in Selma, Alabama, on March 9–11, 1965; his killers were acquitted, and his death spurred the Voting Rights Act.
Jamie Spears
Jamie Spears (James P. Spears) is the father of Britney Spears who served as conservator of her estate from 2008 to 2021, controlling her $60m fortune, was suspended in September 2021, and settled related disputes in April 2024.
Jane Addams
Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social reformer and pacifist who co-founded Hull House in Chicago with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored.
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott (born 1933), American teacher from Riceville, Iowa, creator of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes discrimination exercise first run with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, later a diversity trainer.
Japan Labor Union Council
The Japan Labor Union Council (Hyōgikai) was Japan's first nationwide federation of left-wing labor unions, founded in 1925 under Communist Party influence and banned in 1928.
Japanese family
Japanese family (家族, kazoku): family as a social and legal institution in Japan. Defined by the ie system abolished in 1947, nuclear-family and single-person households now dominate, with 50.3% of households including someone aged 65 or over.
Japanese funeral
Japanese funeral: the Buddhist-style wake (tsuya), funeral service, near-universal cremation (99.97%), kotsuage bone-picking, and 49-day mourning rites, plus Shinto, Catholic, and secular variants and a 1.83-trillion-yen funeral industry.
Jared Taylor
Jared Taylor (born 1951) is an American white nationalist writer, founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of American Renaissance, who calls himself a race realist; SPLC and ADL classify him as a white supremacist.
Jason Kessler
Jason Kessler, UVA graduate and Charlottesville resident, white nationalist organizer of the 2017 Unite the Right rally, later a litigant over his revoked permit, consent-decree signatory, and Unite the Right 2 organizer.
Jazz Jennings
Jazz Jennings is an American transgender activist, author, and reality TV star of TLC's I Am Jazz (2015- ). Known for a 2007 Barbara Walters interview at age six, early transition, memoir Being Jazz, and Harvard studies.
Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio
Jeanette Christina Dousdebes Rubio (born 1973, Miami) is the wife of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, daughter of Colombian parents from Bogotá and Cali, former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, married Rubio in 1998, mother of four.
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima (born 1963) is a Burundian HIV/AIDS and human rights activist who in 1994 became the first woman in Burundi to disclose publicly she was living with HIV.
Jeffrey Wigand
Jeffrey Wigand, American biochemist and former vice president of research and development at Brown & Williamson Tobacco, whistleblower on nicotine manipulation exposed in 60 Minutes and The Insider.
Jeltoqsan
Jeltoqsan (Желтоқсан, Kazakh for "December"), also spelled Zheltoksan, was a series of mass youth protests that began in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on December 17, 1986, and were violently suppressed by Soviet forces.
Jena Six
The Jena Six, also known as the Jena 6, were six African-American Louisiana high school students whose 2006 attempted-murder prosecution became a national racial justice flashpoint.
Jenna Miscavige Hill
Jenna Miscavige Hill (born 1984), American former Scientologist, niece of church leader David Miscavige, daughter of Ron Miscavige Jr.; author of the 2013 memoir Beyond Belief and co-founder of ExScientologyKids.com after leaving the Sea Org in 2005.
Jennifer Flavin
Jennifer Flavin (Jennifer Lee Flavin Stallone), born 1968, American businesswoman and former model, co-founder of Serious Skin Care; married Sylvester Stallone in 1997, three daughters, filed for divorce in 2022 then reconciled.
Jerry Rubin
Jerry Rubin (1938-1994), American counterculture activist, co-founded the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman, organized the 1967 Pentagon march, was a Chicago Seven defendant, then became a Wall Street venture banker.
Jerusalem Demsas
Jerusalem Demsas, American journalist on housing and land use policy; Vox policy reporter and The Weeds co-host (2020-2022), Atlantic staff writer and Good on Paper podcast host, founding editor of the liberal magazine The Argument.
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson (Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., born Jesse Louis Burns), 1941-2026, American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, Operation PUSH and Rainbow PUSH founder, and 1984/1988 Democratic presidential candidate; died February 17, 2026, in Chicago.
Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford (Decca, 1917-1996), English-born American muckraking author and Mitford sister, wrote The American Way of Death (1963), exposing the US funeral industry, plus Kind and Usual Punishment and The American Way of Birth.
Jessie Harlan Lincoln
Jessie Harlan Lincoln (1875–1948), also Jessie Lincoln Beckwith Johnson Randolph, second daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln and granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln; mother of Peggy Beckwith and Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, the last undisputed Lincoln descendant.
Jewish Bolshevism
Jewish Bolshevism, or Judeo-Bolshevism, is an antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming communism and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution were Jewish plots; historians reject it as myth rooted in Protocols-style tropes, used by Nazis to justify murdering Jews.
Jewish pro-Palestinian activism
Jewish pro-Palestinian activism: political action by Jews and Jewish groups, mainly Jewish Voice for Peace (founded 1996), IfNotNow (2014), and Jewish Voice for Liberation, supporting Palestinian rights through anti-occupation and anti-Zionist organizing, BDS endorsement, and campus protest.
Jewish supremacy
Jewish supremacy is a contested term: a conspiracy theme in white supremacist and antisemitic ideology, and a critical label for specific Israeli policies and far-right movements such as Lehava and Otzma Yehudit.
Jewish wedding
Jewish wedding, the ceremony of kiddushin (betrothal) and nissuin (marriage) in Judaism: ketubah contract, two witnesses, chuppah, ring, Sheva Berakhot, yichud, glass-breaking, and modern egalitarian reform.
Jineology
Jineology (Jineolojî), the Kurdish "science of women," coined by Abdullah Öcalan in Sociology of Freedom (2008) and developed by the Kurdish women's freedom movement; underpins Rojava's women's revolution, its academies, and Jin, Jiyan, Azadî.
JK business
JK business (JKビジネス), from joshi kosei (high school girls), is Japan's umbrella term for schoolgirl services like osanpo walks, JK cafes, and massages that often mask sexual exploitation of minors, regulated by prefectural ordinances.
Joan Bakewell
Joan Bakewell (Baroness Bakewell of Stockport, born 1933) is a British broadcaster and journalist famous as presenter of BBC Two's Late Night Line-Up (1965-1972), BBC Arts Correspondent, Heart of the Matter host, BAFTA Fellowship 2019 recipient, novelist, and Liberal Democrat peer.