Reggie Jones, a busy advocate for African Americans, dies at 81
Reginald “Reggie” Jones Sr., a longtime community activist who advocated for African Americans in education, health and economics, died May 5. He was 81 years old. Jones served as executive director of the Indianapolis Skills Center, which offered job training and placement. He helped open a supermarket, Our Market, on Indiana Avenue in 1985. Jones […] The post Reggie Jones, a busy advocate for African Americans, dies at 81 appeared first on Indianapolis Recorder.
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Reginald “Reggie” Jones Sr., a longtime community activist who advocated for African Americans in education, health and economics, died May 5. He was 81 years old.
Jones served as executive director of the Indianapolis Skills Center, which offered job training and placement. He helped open a supermarket, Our Market, on Indiana Avenue in 1985.
Jones was on the board of Community Action against Poverty in the 1980s and was a delegate for the state of Indiana at the National Conference on Saving the Black Family, an initiative started by then-President Jimmy Carter. He served on the race relations board in the 1970s for three Indianapolis mayors.
Jones lived with prostate cancer for more than 20 years and advocated for Black men to get cancer screenings.
In 2019, the NAACP Health Initiative joined the Indiana Commission on the Status of African-American Males and Indiana Black Expo to celebrated Jones at an event to raise awareness among Black men about the risk of prostate cancer.
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