Operation PUSH believes black customers make up closer to 30 percent.

Operation PUSH was successful at raising public awareness to initiate corporate action and government sponsorship.

If he were the nominee, his role in Operation PUSH would no doubt come under intense examination.

But among the station's listeners, it is running second to another story, Operation PUSH's campaign to boycott Nike athletic shoes.

Operation PUSH contends that Nike has done a poor job of hiring and promoting blacks.

He has also worked for the Urban League and Operation PUSH.

In 1996, the Operation PUSH and Rainbow Coalition organizations were merged.

"The mainstream is too narrow, too elitist," he said at Operation PUSH's annual convention here.

Two of these were Operation PUSH and the Rainbow Coalition.

After the convention he also became a vice president of Operation PUSH.