{"id":127798,"date":"2026-03-02T23:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127798\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T23:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:16:10","slug":"erie-flag-at-half-staff-to-honor-reverend-jesse-jackson-sr-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127798\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Flag at Half-Staff to Honor Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Jesse Jackson\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Kara Jeffers<\/p>\n<p>The City of Erie will have the flag at City Hall lowered to half-staff in honor of Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. The flag will stay lowered from now until March 7 in alignment with the recommendation from the African American Mayors Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReverend Jesse Jackson dedicated his life to advancing civil rights, promoting equality, and giving a voice to our most marginalized communities,\u201d said Mayor Devlin. \u201cLowering our flag this week is a small but meaningful tribute to honor his legacy and the lasting impact of his work on communities across our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Jackson had been nationally recognized as a civil rights leader had spent decades advocating for social justice, economic opportunity, and equal rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus By Kara Jeffers The City of Erie will have the flag at City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[59539,841,55530,136,138,137,57179,55404],"class_list":["post-127798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-african-american-mayors-association","tag-city-of-erie","tag-civil-rights-leader","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-half-staff","tag-jesse-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}