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outspoken on almost every major issue in the state, pressuring the state to increase funding for poor (Abbott) school districts leading to the State
Supreme Court to order New Jersey to spend more than eight billion dollars to achieve parity in spending, adequate funding for charity care for those who are uninsured, legislation to end predatory lending targeting minorities and seniors and development of the urban areas of the state. He is best known, however, for his leadership in the fight against racial profiling and reform of the New Jersey State Police which resulted in New Jersey passing legislation and signed by the governor making racial profiling a crime.
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The Rt. Rev. Reginald T. Jackson was elected and consecrated as the 132 bishop in the A.M.E. Church in 2012 at the 49th
Quadrennial Session General Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. He was elected out of the First Episcopal District and stood on the platform: "Imagine the Church at Its Best" and
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As pastor of St. Matthew AME, the church developed more than thirty ministries that minister to the spiritual, emotional, educational, physical and financial needs of the church and community. Church ministries and administration are supported by a budget that has grown from $ 50,000 to almost $
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Jackson serves on numerous boards. He is the chairman of the board of trustees of Essex County
College, (Newark, New Jersey), member and former president of the board of education of the Orange Public Schools (Orange, New Jersey), member of the board of New Brunswick Theological Seminary (New
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In addition to his pastoral and connectional church responsibilities, Jackson serves as the executive director of the Black
Ministers Council (BMC) of New Jersey, which represents more than 600 African American churches in the State of New Jersey. As executive director of the BMC, he has been
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2,000,000. Because of the church's growth a new edifice was built in 1985 and a second larger edifice in 2002. Known as "The
Servant Church of the Oranges",Ā its doors are opened seven days a week and are a center of activity for church and community.
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William Ashby Award by the United Way, the Martin Luther King Award by the Newark North Ward Center. Jackson has been named repeatedly among the 25 most influential people in New Jersey.
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