Rev. Jesse Jackson
Rainbow Push Coalition
Previously Aired On: June 7, 2006 - Listen to this Show!
The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., Founder and President of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice.
Reverend Jackson has been called the Conscience of the Nation and the Great Unifier, challenging America to be inclusive and to establish just and human priorities for the benefit of all. He is known for bringing people together in common ground across lines of race, culture, class, gender and belief.
A renowned orator and activist, Reverend Jackson has received numerous honors for his work in human and civil rights and for nonviolent social change. In 1991, the U.S. Post Office put his likeness on a pictorial postal cancellation, only the second living person to receive such an honor. He has been on the Gallup List of the Ten Most Respected Americans for more than a dozen years.Reverend Jackson has received more than 40 honorary doctorate degrees. The most prestigious honor yet came on August 9, 2000, when President Bill Clinton awarded Reverend Jackson and other distinguished notables the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Good job Jessie.
Comment by darlene | June 3, 2008
Will you please go away & keep quiet? You had your chance & walk away with a TV talk show. You had the party by the balls. I would have voted for you if you would have stayed. If you are not apart of the soultion, please don’t be a problem. I’m a 56 year old BM & I’d love to see a BM president. I’m also a Vet. Be Quiet please! Thank You, Rod
Comment by Rod Simmons | July 10, 2008