#cesar-booker

#cesar-booker

"To me, it was always Brooklyn Avenue, and it will always be Brooklyn Avenue," Trammell said, emphasizing the enduring identity of the street despite its official renaming.

Why do people preemptively, continually, mistake kindness for weakness? By 'people,' he means, at this moment, me. I had just brought up the festering concern, expressed by fans and critics alike, that he is simply too nice to win the presidency. Booker has been trying to convince me that he's tough enough for this uncivil American era-that a pathologically genial New Jersey Democrat who preached love in his (mostly unloved) 2020 campaign could, if called to, knock a guy on his ass.

She is the co-founder of UFW, of all alleged victims, and she calls herself a survivor. She doesn't call herself a victim. Who would have thought? And she kept it quiet for all those decades because she believed in the cause, she didn't want to destroy the cause, she says. She only came out now because these other women had spoken out about their attacks, their sexual assaults, and she didn't want them hanging out there on their own.

Jackson Jr. recognized the full scope and character of his father's mission as the country preacher who brought "a consistent prophetic voice" to struggles for economic and social and racial justice, and peace, over the course of more than six decades in the public eye.

"I still can't quite believe it - that such a courageous person who fought for all of us to ensure we had shade, water, clean restrooms, better working conditions, that such a person, so dedicated to the people ... could do that," said García.

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. took a chance on me as a 19-year-old college student. At that age, as an intern in 2009, I should've been pouring coffee, maybe making copies. Instead, he put me to work on college affordability policy, youth violence prevention, and immigration reform at his Rainbow PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) Coalition on the South Side of Chicago.