In Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris praises Rev. Jesse Jackson as he is ‘pivoting’ from heading Rainbow/PUSH
New leader of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes speaks during the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Annual Convention at the Apostolic Church of God in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago on July 16, 2023.
“In this moment, across our country, we are witnessing hard-fought, hard-won freedoms under full-on attack by extremist so-called leaders. And these extremists have an agenda, an agenda to divide us as a nation, an agenda to attack the importance of diversity and equity and inclusion and the unity of the Rainbow Coalition,” Harris said in a 20-minute speech.She referenced U.S.
“Whether on the campaign trail, on the march for equality, or in the room advocating for what is right and just, I’ve seen him as history will remember him: a man of God and of the people; determined, strategic, and unafraid of the work to redeem the soul of our nation,” Biden said. Harris was introduced by Jackson’s son, first-term U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson, who said the vice president was a bulwark against conservative “tyrants.”
“Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson the Senior, I stand here on his shoulders, because no one with sense would try to stand in his shoes,” he said. “His shoes are quite large, and so Rev. Jackson, thank you for where your shoes have taken us.” The trips, including a July 24 return to Chicago to speak to the UnidosUS annual conference and back on Aug. 11 to attend an annual gathering of the Everytown for Gun Safety organization, are a subset to an administration-wide push to tout economic gains. Most notably, the administration is pushing job growth among Black and Latino workersAdvertisement. Harris on Friday in Baltimore announced a $20 billion clean energy loan program as part of those efforts.
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