{"id":136850,"date":"2026-02-18T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136850\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:26:09","slug":"new-york-state-bar-association-issues-statement-on-the-rev-jesse-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136850\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Bar Association Issues Statement on the Rev. Jesse Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tNew York State Bar Association Issues Statement on the Rev. Jesse Jackson<\/p>\n<p class=\"sr-only\">2.17.2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"sr-only author\">By NYSBA Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt alignnone wp-image-283898 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/shutterstock_2316842823_1440-768x427.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"427\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Sweet, president of the New York State Bar Association, issued the following statement on the death of Rev. Jesse Jackson:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout his life, Jesse Jackson overcame prejudice and pushed America to become a more equitable society. His was a powerful and rhythmic voice of the civil rights movement and the conscience of numerous racial justice initiatives that he championed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Bar Association Issues Statement on the Rev. Jesse Jackson 2.17.2026 By NYSBA Staff Kathleen Sweet,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-136850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}