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Leonard Greene

Leonard Greene: Jesse Jackson kept Martin Luther King’s dream — and hope — alive

If there is anybody in America who deserves to finally retire, it’s the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

We know the job’s not finished, that racism still flourishes, that voting rights are under assault and that the U.S. Supreme Court just took a wrecking ball to affirmative action.

It’s no secret that police brutality continues, that we’re losing the war on poverty and that Black people suffered more than anybody else through the coronavirus pandemic.

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