The second wind of a movement: Rev. Al Sharpton on the new battle for civil rights – Jackson Advocate

What Jesse Jackson’s Hospitalization Reveals About the Future of Civil Rights Leadership.

(ThyBlackMan.com) The news that civil rights icon the reverend Jesse Jackson was hospitalized ignited an avalanche of media and public commentary, speculation and tributes to him. Jackson is battling a rare neurological disorder that most people had never heard of. And it has often proved fatal. This prompted the intense look at Jackson’s history, accomplishments, and place in the civil rights battles of the past half century. It also raised the…

The second wind of a movement: Rev. Al Sharpton on the new battle for civil rights – Jackson Advocate

By Dr. James Bridgeforth, Ph.D., M.Ed. JA Guest Writer “Every time there was a step forward, there’s always been a pushback,” Rev. Al Sharpton told me, his voice even but insistent, as though repeating a truth America keeps trying to forget. He leaned forward in the frame of our Zoom interview, surrounded by photos of marches past. “But progress,” he said, “only dies when people stop fighting for it.” That warning lands hard in a nation growing …