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Jesse Jackson’s political legacy in the Trump era

Jesse Jackson’s political legacy in the Trump era

Politics Weekly America vor 8 Monaten

Jenna Amatulli speaks to George Chidi about how US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson transformed the Democratic party and empowered minority communities at the ballot box, and what Jackson might have thought about the party today as it takes on Donald Tru

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On Tuesday, we learned that the US civil rights leader Jesse
Jackson had died at the age of 84. Tributes flooded in from
political figures across the aisle for the Baptist minister who
twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. This week,
the Guardian’s Jenna Amatulli speaks to George Chidi about how
Jackson transformed the Democratic party and empowered minority
communities at the ballot box, and what Jackson might have thought
about the party today as it takes on Donald Trump