An Adelphi University professor recalled how Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who died Feb. 17 at the age 0f 84, inspired her to hope and be courageous.
Roi Daconto, a Ph.D and professor in Adelphi University’s Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies, said she met Jackson about 30 years ago. He was engaged in a lifetime of civil rights activism, political organization and outspoken protest against racial and economic injustice.
