These iconic civil rights leaders have lost most of their friends. But their hope endures
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Three giants of the civil rights movement -- Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young and Xernona Clayton -- share memories of the colleagues they've lost and why the George Floyd protests make them hopeful about the future.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Xernona Clayton and Andrew Young are some of the last remaining members of a generation of civil rights activists who reshaped the US and challenged their country to become a genuine multiracial democracy. But they are also survivors who have witnessed some of their closest friends in the movement die during a sobering stretch over the past year.
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As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











