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TMP was in Brixton on Saturday to see the Rev. Jesse Jackson speak.  Jackson, the well known African American civil rights activist and associate of the late Rev. Martin Luther King, was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. He went on a walk about and then gave a speech at an Operation Black Vote event at Lambeth Town Hall yesterday.

He urged Black people on both sides of the Atlantic to come together to conquer the challenges they face. He noted that Black people had overcome slavery and won the right to vote, but said the next stage in emancipation was to increase access to economic capital. To this end he will be returning to the UK in August to promote a UK branch of his Rainbow Push Coalition and Equanomics UK, an initiative of the 1990 Trust which focuses on racial justice via economic equality.

Jackson is pictured above in Brixton (left to right) with Dawn Butler, MP for Brent South, Lambeth’s Cllr Lorna Campbell, Lee Jasper, the Mayor of London’s Equalities Advisor and Culture Minister David Lammy MP.