Temporary national executive director appointed at Rainbow PUSH Coalition amid group’s ‘transition’

Rainbow PUSH Coalition acting National Executive Director Bishop Tavis Grant II speaks outside Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center on Aug. 25, 2022. The faith leader will now be in charge of the organization’s headquarters and affiliates. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Bishop Tavis Grant has been appointed the acting national executive director of Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the civil rights organization announced Tuesday. 

Grant will be filling a role temporarily at the group that was last filled by Rev. Tyrone Crider, who died in 2017.