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.
Across the country, especially here in Florida, police “anti-trafficking” operations and local code enforcement raids are being celebrated as “rescues.” But for the people most often targeted, especially BIPOC and migrant sex workers, these raids lead to arrest, criminal charges, family separation, and, for many, deportation. What gets framed as protection is, in practice, punishment.