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8/13/2003

NASCAR Drives Away from Jackson

NASCAR and Others Driven Away from Jackson

Critics Dog Jesse Jackson's Corporate Donors

WASHINGTON — Black conservatives and other watchdog groups say they pressured NASCAR (search) to cut off its annual gifts to the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s Rainbow/Push Coalition (search) because they don’t want the popular motor sports giant to be the victim of a race-based shakedown racket.