Civil rights leader, Jackson lobbies for Kroger boycott in wake of store closings

 

Cincinnati, Oh. — Civil Rights leader Jessie Jackson will pay a visit to the Queen City today to call for a Kroger boycott to protest the closings of two stores in predominantly black areas. Jackson says “food desert” is threatened because the grocer shutdown two Memphis, Tennessee-area locations.

Jackson was invited by the Cincinnati-based Rainbow Push Coalition Local Steering Committee.

In a statement, Jackson said,” If Kroger gonna leave us, we’re gonna leave Kroger! It’s boycott time”.

Jackson will attend a breakfast at the Southern Baptist Church, a presser for the boycott of the Walnut Hills Kroger, meeting with the Hughes High School STEM team and an assembly at the Kroger HQ on Vine Street.