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Author Archives: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

Founder and President, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. On August 9, 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Reverend Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: College Football Amid a Pandemic Not Worth the Risk to Young Men’s Lives

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. June 22, 2020December 21, 2021
Sherman Hardy, wearing prison garb, displays a "I Can't Breathe" sign during a demonstration at Eastover Shopping Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, protesting the killing of George Floyd. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
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JESSE JACKSON: Too Many African American Children are Born in Shackles

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. June 15, 2020December 21, 2021
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JESSE JACKSON: Police Reform Was Never Going to be Easy — But Now’s the Time

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. June 10, 2020December 21, 2021
After a construction site was set on fire during riots in Minneapolis over the police killing of George Floyd, protesters gather on the site as they watched the fire on May 27, 2020. (Chris Juhn/Zenger News Service)
Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: A Lynching in Broad Daylight

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. June 3, 2020December 21, 2021
Forewarned is forearmed in the case of the novel coronavirus, which American health officials believe will affect the nation's respiratory systems in coming weeks. (Courtesy of CDC)
Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: Americans Have United Before to Defeat an External Enemy and We Can Again

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. May 25, 2020December 21, 2021
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JESSE JACKSON: Remembering the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. May 21, 2020December 21, 2021
A screen shot of a video that purportedly shows the altercation between Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery and a white father and son that resulted in Arbery's shooting death
Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery — And Our Continuing Terror

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. May 12, 2020December 21, 2021
**FILE** Voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station set up at Grady High School for the midterm elections on November 6, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)
Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: We Must Protect the Right to Vote in the November Elections

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. May 5, 2020December 21, 2021
Courtesy of splcenter.org
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JESSE JACKSON: Let Prisoners Go During COVID-19 Pandemic

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. April 27, 2020December 21, 2021
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JESSE JACKSON: Coronavirus Illustrates Our Failure to Create a Fair Society

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. April 15, 2020December 21, 2021

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