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In the news today: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement after Rev. Martin Luther King's assassination, has died; the NAACP urges a judge to protect voter information seized by the FBI in Fulton County, Georgia; and a new group of third-country nationals has been deported by the United States to Cameroon, lawyers tell the Associated Press. Also, how a former ice dancer’s camera is bringing Olympic audiences closer to skating.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) |
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades, dies |
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's assassination, died Tuesday. His daughter, Santita Jackson, confirmed that Jackson died at home, surrounded by family. He was 84. Read more.
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As a young organizer in Chicago, Jackson was called to meet with King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis shortly before King was killed and he publicly positioned himself thereafter as King's successor. He led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad, advocating for the poor and underrepresented on issues from voting rights and job opportunities to education and health care.
Jackson had his share of critics, both within and outside of the Black community. Some considered him a grandstander, too eager to seek out the spotlight. Looking back on his life and legacy, Jackson told AP in 2011 that he felt blessed to be able to continue the service of other leaders before him and to lay a foundation for those to come.
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Despite profound health challenges in his final years, Jackson continued protesting against racial injustice into the era of Black Lives Matter. In 2024, he appeared at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and at a City Council meeting to show support for a resolution backing a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. In his final months, as he received 24-hour care, he lost his ability to speak, communicating with family and visitors by holding their hands and squeezing.
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NAACP asks a judge to limit FBI use of seized Georgia voter records |
The NAACP and other organizations are asking a judge to protect personal voter information that was seized by the FBI from an elections warehouse just outside Atlanta. Read more. |
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FBI agents arrived at the elections hub just south of Atlanta on Jan. 28 with a search warrant seeking documents related to the 2020 election in Fulton County.
The motion filed late Sunday notes that the seizure happened as the Department of Justice has been seeking unredacted state voter registration rolls. The organizations asked the judge to “order reasonable limits on the government’s use of the seized data” and to prohibit the government from using the data for purposes other than the criminal investigation. They also asked for a full inventory of what agents took during the seizure and who has accessed it.
- The DOJ did not immediately respond Monday to a request for comment on the motion. President Donald Trump has fixated on Fulton, a Democratic stronghold and the most populous county in the state, asserting without evidence that widespread voter fraud there cost him victory in Georgia in 2020.
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More third-country nationals have been deported by the US to Cameroon, lawyers tell AP |
A new group of third-country nationals was deported by the United States to Cameroon on Monday, lawyers told AP, days after it came to light that the Trump administration sent nine people to the Central African nation last month as part of its secretive program to remove immigrants to countries they have no ties with. Read more.
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The lawyers said they believed there were eight third-country nationals on the plane but had not spoken to them yet. The lawyers also expected to offer counsel to the new group of deportees, they said. The Trump administration has used third-country deportation deals as a deterrent to force migrants who are in the U.S. illegally to leave on their own, saying they could end up “in any number of third countries" if deported.
Of the nine migrants deported last month, eight had protection orders granted by a U.S. immigration judge that prevented them from being deported to their home countries for fear of persecution or torture, lawyer Alma David of the U.S.-based Novo Legal Group said. Deporting them to a third country like Cameroon, from where they could ultimately be sent home, was effectively a legal “loophole,” David said.
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Cameroon is the latest of at least seven African nations to receive deported third-country nationals in a deal with the U.S. The Trump administration has spent at least $40 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries other than their own in Africa, Central America and elsewhere, according to a report compiled by the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and released last week.
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