Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and US presidential hopeful dies at 84, family says

Primanews | 17-02-2026 11:15pm |

Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday. “Our father was a servant leader – not

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