The Rev. Jesse Jackson has stepped down from his presidential role with the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, but the legendary civil rights activist is leaving the social justice organization in good hands. The Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III is slated to become the next president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Jackson handed over the reins to the Dallas luminary on Sunday with help from Vice Presidents Kamala Harris at the organization’s 57th annual conference. In a press release, Haynes said he was “honored” to be carrying on Jackson’s incredible legacy. “As...

Vice President Kamala Harris visited Chicago’s South Side on Sunday to celebrate the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s retirement and praise his career of trying to unify Americans. It was the perfect set-up for a political message “to stand together” against “extremists” who have an “agenda to divide us.” About the campaign: It was a speech that didn’t break new ground on the path to 2024 but was a reminder of how important Harris is to energizing the Black vote. From the VP: “In this moment across our country, we are witnessing...

Jesse Jackson has been my hero since before I could even understand why. He is now 81, in a wheelchair with Parkinson’s disease, stepping down from the civil rights organization he founded 50 amazing years ago! Jesse Jackson resigning I’m pretty choked up thinking about losing him, same as I am thinking about Jimmy Carter, and those who have already gone on like John Lewis, Harry Bellafonte, so many, so so many whose greatness helped shaped my world understanding. I guess I’m just sad tonight. But take a quick gander...

It's not easy passing the baton, especially when your work is your calling. So the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.'s announcement that he is stepping down as the president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition doesn't come as a shock given his medical condition, yet it is a reminder that the role of a leader is to lift the next generation. Aging is a blessing that too many young Black men do not see. Their misfortune appears in neighborhoods where able-bodied men are scarce and positive examples of manhood are few. These...

WASHINGTON - On the day Rev. Jesse Jackson is officially stepping down as the leader of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, President Joe Biden on Sunday praised the founder of the Chicago based civil rights organization as “unafraid of the work to redeem the soul of the nation.” Biden’s statement was released hours before Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Chicago to keynote the afternoon session of the annual Rainbow PUSH Coalition convention, where Jackson’s successor, the Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Texas, will...

News on Friday that the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., at age 81, was retiring as head of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition came with a mixture of sadness and awe among Michiganders who have long since grown accustomed to the civil rights leader lending his voice and presence to the Black community's priorities in Detroit, Flint and elsewhere. "It’s a day to be remembered," said the Rev. Horace Sheffield, director of the Detroit Association of Black Organizations and a longtime activist who knows Jackson personally. "Behind Chicago (where Rainbow PUSH is...

Hundreds gather for Rainbow/PUSH Coalition annual convention where Rev. Jesse Jackson to step down Hundreds gather for Rainbow/PUSH Coalition annual convention where Rev. Jesse Jackson to step down Hundreds gather for Rainbow/PUSH Coalition annual convention where Rev. Jesse Jackson to step down CHICAGO (CBS) -- Hundreds of people are gathering in Chicago for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's annual convention. This year's convention holds historic significance as the organization's president, Rev. Jesse Jackson, prepares to step aside for a new leader.