Thousands in Chicago honored civil rights \u2018champion\u2019 who \u2018stepped forward again and again\u2019, Obama said<\/p>\n
At the longtime civil rights activist\u2019s memorial celebration on Friday, the Rev Jesse Jackson<\/a> was remembered as a \u201cchampion\u201d for the \u201cpoor and the dispossessed\u201d \u2013 as well as \u201cone of the most effective community and political organizers of our time\u201d.<\/p>\n Such tributes came from past Democratic US presidents Barack Obama<\/a>, Bill Clinton<\/a> and Joe Biden<\/a>, along with former vice-president Kamala Harris<\/a>, who received cheers and applause while they joined thousands of others in a Chicago church for a celebration of life for Jackson.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thousands in Chicago honored civil rights \u2018champion\u2019 who \u2018stepped forward again and again\u2019, Obama said At the longtime civil rights activist\u2019s memorial celebration on Friday, the Rev Jesse Jackson was remembered as a \u201cchampion\u201d for the \u201cpoor and the dispossessed\u201d \u2013 as well as \u201cone of the most effective community and political organizers of our … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}