Jesse Jackson, 1941-2026

Source: The Guardian [UK]

“The Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil rights campaigner who was prominent for more than 50 years and who ran strongly for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, has died. He was 84. … Jackson had had progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) for more than a decade. He was originally diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He was also twice hospitalised with Covid in recent years. A fixture in the civil rights movement and Democratic politics since the 1960s, Jackson was once close to Dr Martin Luther King Jr.” (02/17/26)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/jesse-jackson-civil-rights-icon-dies