The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years despite challenges over his health, the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice and political divisions.

Forty years after a predominantly Black community in Warren County, North Carolina, rallied against hosting a hazardous waste landfill, President Joe Biden’s top environment official has returned to what is widely considered the birthplace of the environmental justice movement to unveil a national office that will distribute $3 billion in block grants to underserved communities burdened by pollution.

Martin Luther King Jr.s last organizing effort said Tuesday new data suggest low-income voters in key states could swing some U.S. Senate races. The Poor Peoples Campaign said its using the data to pressure candidates from both parties to focus on poverty and encourage poor and low-income voters in 13 states to register to vote. It also found that low-income voters are about 22 percentage points less likely to vote in national elections than voters with higher incomes. Matt Bevin in 2018 following an effort to register low-income voters. Modeled after King's last organizing effort, the Poor Peoples Campaign seeks to bring the issue of poverty to the American consciousness amid anxiety, uncertainty, and growing inequality.

The Mass Poor Peoples Assembly & Moral March on Washington aims to build upon the nations principles to pursue solutions to poverty something advocates say is getting especially severe in rural areas. The Mass Poor Peoples Assembly & Moral March on Washington aims to build upon the nations principles to pursue solutions to poverty something advocates say is getting especially severe in rural areas. But instead of assembling in camps near the National Mall as protesters did in the wake of King's death in 1968, as part of the Poor People's Campaign this week's gathering will offer poor people a chance to describe their lives, live-streamed to a national audience. Organizers say poor coal miners from Kentucky and Apache tribal members from Arizona will speak about their own experiences in extreme poverty. He said organizers want both President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden to hold at least one debate that focuses on poverty.