Then H-F High Principal Jerry Lee Anderson, left, and Superintendent Von Mansfield, right, welcomed Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., center, to campus in May 2019 as the school and the community wrestled with a controversial blackface incident. (Provided photo)
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Rev. Jesse Jackson urges H-F students to move away from anger over racial incident

  Rev. Jesse Jackson listens as sophomore Aniya Askew,
  left, asks her question during a student assembly
  Tuesday at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. 

  (Provided photo)
 

It’s been more than a week since four Homewood-Flossmoor High School students posted a racist video on social media. Feeling hurt and angry about it is understandable, but students must work through their feelings so that healing can begin, Rev. Jesse Jackson told students at an assembly on Tuesday.

 
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