US EditionThousands continue to pay respects to Rev. Jesse Jackson on 2nd day of visitation at Rainbow PUSH
Jackson's children loaded his casket into a new hearse that will transport him from Chicago to South Carolina for memorials in multiple cities, marking a full-circle moment for the Leak family.
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Evanston activist who worked with Jesse Jackson credits him for showing her the way
Nearly two weeks after the Rev. Jesse Jackson died at 84 supporters are still mourning his loss. Thousands attended his visitation Thursday and Friday at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago’s Kenwood neighborhood. Services are planned in South Carolina and Washington, D.C., before a funeral in Chicago on March 6. Jackson was a native of Greenville, South Carolina, but moved to Chicago in 1964 to attend Chicago Theological Seminary. He…
Thousands continue to pay respects to Rev. Jesse Jackson on 2nd day of visitation at Rainbow PUSH
Memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. continued Friday in Chicago, before events in Washington, D.C., and South Carolina, where he was born, to honor his long civil rights legacy.
President Gustavo Petro will travel to Chicago on March 7 to attend the funeral of Reverend Jesse Jackson, an African American civil rights activist in the United States, who died ten days ago at age 84. “I will go to Chicago on March 7 to the funeral of Reverend Jessie (sic) Jackson, former presidential candidate, a great fighter for the civil rights of African Americans,” said the president in X about this trip, on the eve of the legislative e…
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