The historic civil rights group, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a Chicago-based nonprofit group shaped as a merger of two nonprofit organizations based by Reverend Jesse Jackson – Operation PUSH (Individuals United to Save Humanity) and the Nationwide Rainbow Coalition – now has a brand new president and CEO.
Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III, senior pastor of the Dallas mega-church Friendship-West Baptist Church which boasts greater than 13,000 members, was formally put in because the president and CEO of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition on Feb. 1.
The Set up
The set up passed off on the Black Academy of Arts and Letters (1323 Canton St, Dallas, TX 75202) amid a sold-out gathering six months after the announcement of Haynes as Jackson’s successor was made through the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s nationwide conference.
VIP program members and attendees descended upon Dallas, the state’s fifth finest metropolis (after Houston, Austin, Missouri Metropolis, and Galveston), from everywhere in the nation, together with Roland Martin, Rev. Al Sharpton (Nationwide Motion Community), Shavonne Arline-Bradley (Nationwide Council of Negro Ladies), Dr. Michael Sorrell, Dr. Amos Brown, and Dr. Ron Daniels, amongst others.
Tashara Parker, a four-time Emmy award-winning journalist, served because the mistress of ceremonies.
The Social Justice Convention
The very subsequent day, Feb. 2, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition hosted the President’s Inaugural Social Justice Convention at Paul Quinn Faculty (3837 Simpson Stuart Street Dallas, TX 75241). And in an effort to assist Black enterprise, the formal set up ceremony and the President’s Inaugural Social Justice Convention had been introduced by Sound Design Studios, a Dallas-based Black owned manufacturing firm.
The Rainbow PUSH Coalition President’s Inaugural Social Justice Convention, the primary occasion convened by Haynes, the group’s newly put in chief, was described by the group as “a name to motion in addition to a reminder that the combat for social justice is way from over and requires the collective effort of each particular person to result in significant change.”
Audio system included creator and activist Tamika Mallory; Pastor Mike McBride; preacher, scholar and researcher Rev. Dr. Brianna Okay. Parker; pastor, creator, and activist Rev. Tisha Dixon Williams; civil rights and social coverage advocate, lawyer, and CEO Mrs. Jennifer Jones Austin; creator, activist, and educator Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.; and Haynes himself.
Classes included the “Social Justice Grasp Class,” “Creating Financial Buildings which are Simply,” the “Disinherited Convention,” and “Curriculum for the 2024 Election.”
Haynes’ reference to Paul Quinn Faculty, the positioning of the convention, runs deep. Haynes teaches faculty programs and workshops at a number of establishments of upper studying, together with Paul Quinn Faculty. He additionally serves on the Board of Trustees for Paul Quinn Faculty in addition to numerous different boards. Moreover, he’s the namesake of the Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III International Preparatory Faculty, positioned on the campus of Paul Quinn Faculty, which serves college students grades 6-12 who search to enter the Worldwide Baccalaureate program.
Haynes’ Awards & Honors
Haynes, a 2016 inductee to the Worldwide Civil Rights Stroll of Fame, is claimed to be already centered on making constructive change in his new position, with a nationwide agenda to handle points with courts, the top of affirmative motion, financial justice, instructional fairness and justice, and the results of local weather change on communities of coloration.
Haynes is finest often known as a social justice pastor and advocate for marginalized communities, modeling his ministry and management after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; one centered on the intersections of religion and justice.
Haynes has acquired quite a few awards and honors for his ministry and activism, which match his agenda. In 2011, Haynes had the distinction of being the featured speaker at The Congressional Black Caucus’ Annual Prayer Breakfast. In 2012, Ebony Journal named him to its Energy 100 listing of most influential African Individuals. He was additionally inducted into the Nationwide Black Faculty Alumni Corridor of Fame.
In 2013, Haynes was chosen to present remarks on the memorial service of probably the most revered world leaders of the twentieth and twenty first centuries, President Nelson Mandela. In 2020, Haynes was a featured speaker through the Democratic Nationwide Conference’s religion occasion, “Our Values, Our Voices, Our Votes.” That very same yr, the celebrated April 4th Basis awarded Haynes the I’m a Man Award, becoming a member of the ranks of previous honorees like Congresswoman Maxine Waters, legendary activist Diane Nash, Congressman John Lewis, and Harry Belafonté. In 2022, Haynes was awarded the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Lifetime Achievement Management Award in Neighborhood Service by President Joe Biden.
As a mirrored image of his dedication to neighborhood transformation and social consciousness, Haynes serves in numerous management capacities in organizations that champion social change and training. In 2003, he based the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Convention together with Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. and Dr. Iva E. Carruthers. Haynes is on the board of the Convention of Nationwide Black Church buildings, the Nationwide Motion Community, and the IC3 Church Development and Growth Convention.
