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For the second straight year, community members and lawmakers gathered to honor and celebrate the late Jelani Day and reaffirm their commitment to his legacy at the All White Remembrance.
Day's body was found in the Illinois River in LaSalle County in September. The local coroner said he died by drowning, but the manner of death is still unknown.
“This is the beginning of a movement,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said leading a march through Peru.
“You’re not going to forget his name because I’m not going to let you,” Carmen Bolden Day said on Saturday.