In the late 1980s, Palm Beach County NOW was actively organizing around sexual violence and workplace harassment. After a reported rape at a public beach in Boca Raton in 1989, the chapter organized a “Take Back the Beach” protest to call attention to violence against women and unsafe conditions in public spaces. During that action, a male lifeguard approached NOW members to share concerns about the sexual harassment of female lifeguards within the City of Boca Raton’s lifeguard department.
Rev. Jesse Jackson with NOW members at the March on Washington for Affirmative Action, 2000.
Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., civil rights leader, Baptist minister, and two-time presidential candidate, has died at 84. For more than five decades, Jackson stood at the forefront of movements for racial justice, voting rights, economic equity, and affirmative action, shaping national conversations about democracy and inclusion.
International Day of Education is meant to affirm a simple truth: every person deserves access to knowledge that is accurate, inclusive, and reflective of our shared humanity. But in Florida, that promise is increasingly out of reach. Instead of expanding educational access, the state has doubled down on censorship, stripping shelves, restricting curriculum, and silencing the educators and librarians who make learning possible.