Reginald T. Jackson, A.M.E. Bishop With Political Power, Dies at 71

Influential up and down the Eastern Seaboard, he was part of a long tradition among Black clergy of fighting bias and getting out the vote. “No vote, no clout,” he’d say.Bishop Reginald Jackson in 2024. As head of one of the country’s largest majority-Black denominations, he was a leading figure at the intersection of religion and Black electoral politics.