Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. announced Friday that he was stepping down as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
made the announcement during a convention to the coalition last weekend, staying he plans to name a successor in the coming weeks.
“The resignation of Rev. Jesse Jackson is the pivoting of one of the most productive, prophetic, and dominant figures in the struggle for social justice in American history," Rev. Al Sharpton said in a statement as the news became public."It was my honor, since my mother brought me to him at 12 years old to serve as the youth director for the New York chapter of Operation Breadbasket, down through the last decade, to have been a student and protégé of his.
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