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PICTURED: Rev. Dr. Frederick Hayens, III speaks at his installation ceremony for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition on February 1, 2024.  Dallas Pastor Freddy Haynes was installed as the head of civil rights organization Rainbow Push in February and has decided to vacate the post less thatn 3 months later. Haynes released a statement announcing his abrupt resignation on Tuesday.  A reason for the pivot was not given.   The organization that was started by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1971 has been a source of support for a vast range of issues facing the African American community of over it 52 year existence.  Jackson himself, who had been suffering from Parkinson's disease when he stepped down,  handpicked 63-year-old Haynes to be his successor.  In a follow-up video to the initial announcement that was written on Rainbow Push letterhead, Haynes called Jackson his personal hero and committed his continued advocacy for the organization's cause.   ...

BY JESSE JACKSON President Obama’s historic trip to Havana, Cuba — the first American president to visit since Calvin Coolidge in 1928 — opens the door to a new era in relations not only with Cuba, but also with our neighbors across the hemisphere. Extensive press coverage of the trip will feature the President’s meeting with Cuban leader Raul Castro, the  Tuesday  baseball game pitting the Cuban national team against Tampa Bay, the president’s meetings with business leaders and with Cuban dissidents. We’ll get pictures of aged Chevy’s held together by duct tape, of lovely but crumbling Havana mansions, of Cuba’s lively culture and its widespread poverty. Cuba surely is a poor country. Its government, while still enjoying popular support, is a far remove from a democracy. Freedom of speech and assembly are greater than most realize, but still severely policed. But much of what we think about Cuba is upside down, and inside out. First, in many ways, the presi...

buzzz worthy. . . CHARLESTON SHOOTINGS  REFLECT  TERRORISM - NOT ITS’ ORIGINS NEEDED:  A WH Conference On Racial Justice – Racism Deserves A Remedy June 18, 2015, Chicago, IL -- Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. -- Not unlike the four little girls killed in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, today the nation and the world are saddened and outraged at the hatred and senseless killing of nine African Americans in the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina – including its pastor and a state senator.  Over three decades ago Operation PUSH held its national convention centered in this church and I did two televised Firing Line interviews with William F. Buckley there. And, not unlike the economic and political context of Birmingham, the nation and its leadership are still failing to see, understand and come to grips with the underlying economic and political circumstances that led to such a tragedy. ...