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Exclusive: Rev. Jesse Jackson, 82, hospitalized

At the Rainbow PUSH Coalition‘s Creating Opportunity Conference closing ceremony in Atlanta on Oct. 20, representatives of the organization announced that Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.

Jesse Jackson: ‘War on poverty wages on’

Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson, lamenting that too many Americans “live on the outskirts of hope,” declared an “unconditional war on poverty