Prominent civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson is stepping down from the organization he created decades ago as he approaches his 82nd birthday in October.
Robert Woodson, a civil rights veteran, slammed Democrats pushing for reparations as a ploy to gain the support of Black Americans for the 2024 presidential election.
The elder Jackson, a civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, plans to announce his decision on Sunday during the organization’s annual convention, Rep. JacksonJonathan Jackson, an Illinois Democrat, said his father"has forever been on the scene of justice and has never stopped fighting for civil rights" and that will be"his mark upon history."
He announced in 2017 that he was receiving treatment for Parkinson's disease and had gallbladder surgery in 2021. Later in 2021, Jackson said he was receiving treatment for COVID-19, which required time at a physical therapy facility.In November 2021,Jackson, a protégé of the Rev.
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