Rev. Al Sharpton hosting tribute service for Rev. Jesse Jackson
The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network (NAN), will host a special tribute to the Rev. Jesse Jackson. The post Rev. Al Sharpton hosting tribute service for Rev. Jesse Jackson appeared first on New York Amsterdam News.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network (NAN), will host a special tribute to the Rev. Jesse Jackson during his Saturday Action Rally on Feb. 21. The event, honoring Jackson’s life and legacy, will held at Mother AME Zion Church (140 W. 137th St., Harlem) starting at 9 a.m.
A high-profile delegation of elected officials is scheduled to attend, including Mayor Zoharan Mamdani, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, State Attorney General Letitia James and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer.
The tribute marks a full circle in a relationship that began when Sharpton was a teenager. At the time, Jackson appointed the young Sharpton as youth director of Operation Breadbasket in Brooklyn. In the decades that followed, the two men organized on the front lines of the nation’s most defining moments for racial justice.
The location of the tribute carries significant historical weight. Jackson personally named NAN’s headquarters “The House of Justice,” and Mother AME Zion Church was the site of Jackson’s final public speech.
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