Mr. Dyson is a professor of African American and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University. The Rev. Jesse Jackson rose to prominence in the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ghastly assassination.

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Bradley Akubuiro was an intern for Rev. Jesse Jackson at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in 2009. Jackson taught him to lean into hard moments and to hold tension between conflict and conversation.

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