Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson dies at 84

CHARISMATIC US 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.

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“Our father was a servant leader - not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,’ the Jackson family said. Jackson, an inspirational orator and longtime Chicagoan, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017.