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Simmons College to Create Jesse Jackson Center for Racial Justice
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Simmons College to Create Jesse Jackson Center for Racial Justice

Mark Wingfield, Baptist News GlobalApril 7, 2023

On the 55th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Simmons College of Kentucky announced a new $2 million initiative on racial justice. College President Kevin Cosby announced the gift from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation during a service at St. Stephen Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. The centerpiece of the initiative will be creation of The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. Center for Racial Justice.

Tensions Flare in Arbery Death Trial as Jesse Jackson Visits
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Tensions Flare in Arbery Death Trial as Jesse Jackson Visits

Russ Bynum, AP NewsNovember 18, 2021

A judge denied mistrial requests on Monday at the trial of three white men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery after defense attorneys claimed jurors were tainted by weeping from the gallery where the slain Black man’s parents sat with the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Tensions flare in Arbery death trial as Jesse Jackson visits
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Tensions flare in Arbery death trial as Jesse Jackson visits

AP Russ BynumNovember 15, 2021

A judge denied mistrial requests on Monday at the trial of three white men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery after defense attorneys claimed jurors were tainted by weeping from the gallery where the slain Black man’s parents sat with the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

The morning’s testimony was largely disrupted by arguments outside the jury’s presence over Jackson’s appearance. The judge said he found one defense lawyer’s complaints last week about Black pastors to be “reprehensible,” and that no group would be excluded from his courtroom.

REV JESSE JACKSON LAMENTS THE PASSING OF GHANA’S FORMER PRESIDENT JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS
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REV JESSE JACKSON LAMENTS THE PASSING OF GHANA’S FORMER PRESIDENT JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS

Sentinel News ServiceNovember 19, 2020

It is with profound sadness and shock to learn about the passing of my dear friend and brother, H.E. Jerry John Rawlings, former President of Ghana. I had the opportunity to work with brother Rawlings during his presidency while I was the U.S. Special Envoy for Africa and he played a vital role in restoring peace in West Africa especially during the Minor River crisis (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone).

Rev. Jesse Jackson Delivers the Eulogy for Emantic “EJ” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr, Young Black Man Shot in Birmingham Mall
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Rev. Jesse Jackson Delivers the Eulogy for Emantic “EJ” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr, Young Black Man Shot in Birmingham Mall

Associated PressDecember 3, 2018

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered the eulogy Saturday for an African-American man shot to death by a police officer following a shooting at a crowded Alabama shopping mall. Jackson said the Hoover police officer who shot Emantic “EJ” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21, “must face justice” and urged authorities to release tapes of the shooting. “No one is above the law,” Jackson said. The officer killed Bradford on Thanksgiving night while responding to a shooting at the Riverchase Galleria Mall. Authorities initially identified Bradford as the gunman, but later retracted that allegation and searched for the real