1. LeAlan Marvin Jones was born on May 8,1979 and is an American journalist who lives in Chicago's South Shore.
13 Facts About LeAlan Jones
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LeAlan Jones was raised by his grandparents, Gus and June Jones, in the same house his family had lived in since the 1930s.
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LeAlan Jones was a junior spokesperson for the No Dope Express Foundation, a youth education and anti-drug organization.
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LeAlan Jones was contacted by David Isay, who was producing a piece on poverty for Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ.
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LeAlan Jones graduated from Chicago's Dr Martin Luther King High School in 1997.
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LeAlan Jones studied criminology at Florida State University where he became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi in the Spring of 1998 before transferring to Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois in 2001.
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LeAlan Jones is the visionary for the Aspiring Youth Take A Student To your Employment Program.
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LeAlan Jones thought that while it is helpful for students to hear from inspiring speakers, the students would benefit even more if they could visit workplaces to see why school is important and what they need to do with their education to get a good job someday.
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At the height of the Rod Blagojevich scandal, LeAlan Jones made the decision to run for United States Senate.
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LeAlan Jones ran unopposed in the Green Party primary and gained the nomination.
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LeAlan Jones ran against Republican Mark Kirk, Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, and Libertarian Mike Labno in the general election in November 2010.
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LeAlan Jones has called for the immediate ratification of UNICEF's Convention on the Rights of the Child, a ban on land mines and complete nuclear disarmament.
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LeAlan Jones supported troop withdrawal from, and ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.