Date 04/05/2017 - News People
CNN's Van Jones is seeking more attention for his activist work by pairing with Jay Z's management firm Roc Nation. The pundit announced the new affiliation Thursday. He hopes the company's expertise in cultural influence will help his work in green initiatives, getting poor kids involved in the tech sector and training prison inmates in media skills. Jones is known now for trying to bridge the partisan divide on CNN, recently saying President Trump's salute to the widow of a Navy SEAL in a speech before Congress back in February helped him become "president of the United States in that moment,"
