{"id":28519,"date":"2026-03-01T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/28519\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:37:43","slug":"omega-psi-phi-to-honor-rev-jesse-jackson-with-omega-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/28519\/","title":{"rendered":"Omega Psi Phi to honor Rev. Jesse Jackson with Omega Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. will honor the life and legacy of their late fraternity brother, civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, with an official Omega Service.<\/p>\n<p>The private ceremony, hosted by the fraternity\u2019s Talented Tenth District, is scheduled for March 5 in Chicago. The Omega Service is a sacred, formal ritual reserved for honoring the lives and contributions of deceased members, referred to within the organization as \u201centering Omega Chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s journey with the fraternity began in the Spring of 1960. He was initiated through the Pi Psi Chapter at North Carolina A&amp;T State University. During his undergraduate years, he was elected to the position of Second Vice Grand Basileus.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/divine-nine-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to see our Divine Nine section<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is not only a public figure, but a son of Omega, one whose life demonstrates what it means to lead with mission and to stand as a living symbol of action,\u201d the fraternity said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1911 at Howard University, Omega Psi Phi is the fourth-oldest Black Greek-letter organization and the first fraternity to be founded at a historically Black university. Since its inception, the fraternity has grown to include over 250,000 members across more than 750 undergraduate and graduate chapters worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. will honor the life and legacy of their late fraternity brother, civil rights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,12808,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-28519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-amsterdam","8":"tag-amsterdam","9":"tag-jesse-jackson","10":"tag-netherlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}