Ode to U.S. Civil Rights Icon Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr: A Life That Carried the Rainbow By Purnaka L. de Silva Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/02/ode-to-u-s-civil-rights-icon-rev-jesse-jackson-sr-a-life-that-carried-the-rainbow/ NEW YORK, Feb 20 2026 (IPS) - When the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. declared, “Keep hope alive,” it was not a slogan. It was a discipline. It was a moral posture. It was a promise to those America had locked out of its prosperity and pushed to the margins of its democracy. And for more than five decades, Jackson kept that promise – organizing, marching, preaching, negotiating, and standing in solidarity with oppressed peoples at home and abroad. Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.