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@RevJJackson

The Official twitter account for the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 6

    Please READ, SHARE WIDELY, RT & LIKE, , “President Trump’s insatiable appetite for regime change.” !

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    4 hours ago

    Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson visits Myrtle Beach

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    8 hours ago

    “The $91 billion number is not true, period, end of story. Here's what is true.” fact-checks President Trump’s misleading claim that Puerto Rico received $91 billion in disaster relief aid after Hurricane Maria.

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    May 7

    A man who spent a month in Mississippi jail for voter fraud had his charges dismissed because it turns out his original crime, manslaughter, didn’t disqualify him from voting in the state

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    May 7

    if you're wondering how much money people will need to AFFORD REGAINING THE RIGHT TO VOTE,

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    10 hours ago

    For the next couple of days im going to be following Secretaries of State from both parties as they go on a civil rights tour through Alabama, culminating in a march across Edmund Pettus Bridge. Stay tuned.

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    14 hours ago

    Police have removed more than 1,000 guns from a home in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood.

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    15 hours ago

    THIS: Harvard Business Review found that newsroom layoffs disproportionately involve people of color and women, and that people of color are penalized for speaking out about diversity.

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    10 hours ago

    Nipsey Hussle had a plan to beat gentrification — in South L.A. and across the U.S.

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    May 7

    South Africans are voting in national and provincial elections

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    11 hours ago

    Hassan Bennett served 13 years in prison for murder, but his lawyer failed to introduce phone records or call witnesses that proved he didn't do it. Hassan studied law in prison, got a retrial and became his own lawyer. This time he won, and now he's free.

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    9 hours ago

    North Carolina deputy beat unarmed black man and unleashed his dog to attack, prosecutors say

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  13. 2 hours ago

    : Radio host tells Botham Jean's mother that Amber Guyger was chosen by God to kill her son: . SUN: 8-10aE/866.594.HOPE/: ; : Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr; Santita Jackson and Friends…

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  14. 7 hours ago

    : WWII Veteran, Tuskegee Airman, Harvard-Trained M.D., Dr. Granville Coggs Dies at 93: . SUN: 8-10aE/866.594.HOPE/: ; : Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr; Santita Jackson and Friends…

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  15. Retweeted
    May 8

    A pleasure to hear the Rev. Jesse Jackson on in America at the 2019 Top 50 Announcement Conference in last night

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  16. Retweeted
    May 1

    “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know i can achieve it.” —Thank you Reverend Jesse Jackson What an honor to be in the presence of a GIANT, an agent for social justice, civil rights, and change. Thank you...we stand on the shoulders of legends like you.

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    13 hours ago

    That people in charge of developing our children and teaching them their role as citizens would demean hungry, poor students this way gives them their earliest lesson in how little we value people simply because they have little money.

    “In schools nationwide, students have been branded with stamps, given unappealing cheese sandwiches, or even had their lunches thrown away after employees discovered that they were in arrears.”
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  18. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    Cold butter and jelly for students in debt. Our nation's school districts should be held accountable for penalizing and shaming students for their poverty.

    A Rhode Island school district is facing accusations of lunch shaming after it announced a limited midday-meal option of a sunflower seed butter and jelly sandwich for students who are in debt on their school-lunch accounts
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  19. 11 hours ago

    MEDIA ALERT! TODAY Thurs,5.9.19 11amEST! JOIN ME w/members of the State Baptist Conv during Press Conf RE:Plans for a STATEWIDE VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE &theURGENT need for expansion& sensible gun control measures 2101 N.Oak St Myrtle Beach, SC

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  20. 12 hours ago

    : Hugo, OK Community Outraged After Police Shoot Three Children in the Head; five-, four-, and one-year children: . SUN: 8-10aE/866.594.HOPE/: ; : Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr; Santita…

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  21. 12 hours ago

    : America’s Defense Budget Is Bigger Than You Think. It Actually Exceeds $1 Trillion: . SUN: 8-10aE/866.594.HOPE/: ; : Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr; Santita Jackson and Friends…

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