Bishop Reginald T. Jackson of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a revered clergyman and civil rights leader who opposed racial profiling, under-funding of urban schools and other injustices in New Jersey for more than three decades, died on Tuesday. He was 71. The cause and location of his death were not immediately available.

“The St. Matthew congregation and the broader New Jersey community is devastated by the sudden transition of Bishop Reginald Thomas Jackson,” read a statement from the Rev. Melvin E. Wilson, a successor to Jackson as pastor of the St. Matthew AME Church in Orange.

“Bishop Jackson was also intricately involved in all matters pertaining to social justice, and he fought for the civil rights of all people,” Wilson added. “He was a voice for the voiceless, and

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