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Memorial services for Jesse Jackson begin at Chicago HQ of his civil rights group

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CHICAGO — Cross-country memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. are set to begin Thursday in Chicago, the city the late civil rights leader called home. The protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate will lie in repose for two days at the headquarters of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition … Read more

Jesse Jackson’s journey from a South Carolina protest to presidential runs

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Back in 2024, I met the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Juneteenth and watched him do something truly remarkable – cast a shadow as a giant, figuratively, as a more than 40-foot-tall and 150-foot-wide monument to freedom was being dedicated in Montgomery, Alabama. There was a sea of people who took part in the monument’s dedication, … Read more