The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the Nationwide Motion Community (NAN), will host a particular tribute to the Rev. Jesse Jackson throughout his Saturday Motion Rally on Feb. 21. The occasion, honoring Jackson’s life and legacy, will held at Mom AME Zion Church (140 W. 137th St., Harlem) beginning at 9 a.m.
A high-profile delegation of elected officers is scheduled to attend, together with Mayor Zoharan Mamdani, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, State Lawyer Basic Letitia James and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer.
The tribute marks a full circle in a relationship that started when Sharpton was a teen. On the time, Jackson appointed the younger Sharpton as youth director of Operation Breadbasket in Brooklyn. Within the a long time that adopted, the 2 males organized on the entrance strains of the nation’s most defining moments for racial justice.
The situation of the tribute carries vital historic weight. Jackson personally named NAN’s headquarters “The Home of Justice,” and Mom AME Zion Church was the positioning of Jackson’s ultimate public speech.
