Jackson died on Feb. 17<\/a>. He was 84.<\/p>\n“Rev. Jackson\u2019s spirit will not die, cannot die, shall not die when the legacy continues,” True Vine Ministries Pastor Zachary Carey said.<\/p>\n
Oakland is honoring Jackson with a proclamation declaring March 7 as Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. Day.<\/p>\n
“Rev. Jackson\u2019s connections to Oakland run deep,” said Rev. Damita Davis, director of public safety in Oakland. “He stood with this community in moments of challenges and in moments of progress”<\/p>\n
Jackson visited Oakland many times over the decades, preaching in local churches, organizing with labor, and building the Rainbow Coalition, advocating for racial, economic, and social justice.<\/p>\n
NBC Bay Area’s Velena Jones has more in the video report above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clergy of many faiths, labor leaders, elected officials and community members gathered in Oakland on Friday to honor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[86095,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-208257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-jesse-jackson","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}