The Reverend Jesse Jackson Snr., the renowned civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin Luther King and was the first Black U.S presidential candidate, is now heading the Rainbow Push Coalition in the USA and will conduct a UK tour with Equanomics UK from the 20 August to 26 August.

Equanomics UK is a growing coalition of organisations across the UK who want to develop more economic analyses and approaches to equality in the UK. It is a project incubated at the 1990 Trust.

Rev Jackson’s tour is to signify the importance of the economic contribution of Black and minority ethnic people, who were central to the industrial revolution and the making of modern Britain, to rebuilding Britain after the two world wars and who are now significant players in the economy through Black businesses, rates and taxes, labour supply and purchasing power.  The tour will pass through Bristol, London, Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield and Bradford.

For more information visit Equanomics UK.