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fromThe Oaklandside
1 month agoCesar Chavez sexual abuse allegations shake Oakland community
For me, it's someone I've honored, respected, and followed. Growing up here in East Oakland, Chavez's organizing motivated many of us to not only speak out on behalf of our communities but to do the work...advocating for the humanity of not just farmworkers but those of us in the neighborhood.
East Bay (California)
California
fromSan Jose Spotlight
1 month agoCantrell: Black voices need to be heard in race for California governor - San Jose Spotlight
Derek Grasty and Ramsey Robinson, excluded from mainstream California gubernatorial race coverage, represent working and Black communities' concerns through direct lived experience and critique of systemic invisibility.
#sexual-abuse-allegations
Social justice
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month agoCommentary: And just like that, the Cesar Chavez myth is punctured. What's next?
Sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez, including rape accusations from Dolores Huerta and two women, have emerged, prompting organizations to withdraw celebrations and reassess their support for the civil rights icon.
Social justice
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month agoCommentary: And just like that, the Cesar Chavez myth is punctured. What's next?
Sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez, including rape accusations from Dolores Huerta and two women, have emerged, prompting organizations to withdraw celebrations and reassess their support for the civil rights icon.
Higher education
fromwww.amny.com
1 month agoOp-Ed | A six-decade legacy of access and opportunity | amNewYork
SEEK, the nation's first state-funded academic opportunity initiative founded in 1966, has helped over 100,000 students access and complete college degrees through comprehensive support services including tutoring, mentoring, and financial assistance.
fromQueerty
1 month agoPete Buttigieg slams MAGA & Tr*mp in defiant speech: "We are not trying to make America anything again" - Queerty
This is hardly the first season in which the wealthy have made themselves more and more powerful in collusion with the powerful, making themselves more and more wealthy all at the expense of political equality and economic opportunity. Today we use words like unprecedented, but the truth is our times are more precedent than we would care to admit.
Right-wing politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month agoJesse Jackson's Son Swipes at Obama and Biden After Politically-Charged Eulogies: They Do Not Know Jesse Jackson'
He maintained a tense relationship with the political order, not because the presidents were White or Black, but the demands of our message, the demands of speaking for the least of these—those who are disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected—demanded not Democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded a consistent, prophetic voice that at no point in time sold us out as a people.
Left-wing politics
fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 months agoAfter a president-filled celebration, Rev. Jesse Jackson's family gathers for a private homegoing
I foresee tomorrow will represent everything that Rev. Jackson stood for. It will include dignitaries and icons, as well as many from where the true power lies, with the people in the streets.
Chicago
Left-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoJesse Jackson hailed as ambassador of hope' at memorial attended by Clintons, Obama and Biden
Rev Jesse Jackson, a civil rights activist who championed the poor for over fifty years, was remembered at his memorial as an effective organizer whose 1988 presidential campaign inspired future leaders including Barack Obama.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
2 months agoHomegoing service will celebrate civil rights leader Jesse Jackson in Chicago
Rev. Jesse Jackson's public memorial service in Chicago on Friday will be attended by former presidents Obama, Biden, and Clinton, featuring performances by Jennifer Hudson and gospel singers, celebrating his decades of civil rights activism.
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
2 months agoCivil rights leaders say the racial progress Jesse Jackson fought for is under threat
Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon who transformed Black political power through groundbreaking 1980s presidential campaigns, died at 84, leaving a legacy of expanding political possibilities for Black Americans and people of color.
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