Jesse Jackson’s vision for America embraced environmental justice
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Peggy Shepard walked into her living room on Tuesday morning when her husband told her Jesse Jackson, the civil rights titan from South Carolina, had died. “Immediately tears started coming,” said Shepard, co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a New York City-based nonprofit. Nearly 40 years ago, Jackson had altered the […]