Jesse Jackson, US civil rights leader, dies at age 84Reuters, WashingtonCharismatic 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 yesterday. “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. The Reverend Jesse Jackson attends the 10th Annual Rainbow Push Wall Street Project Summit in New York on Jan. 8, 2007. Jackson weathered a spate of controversies, but remained the US’ pre-eminent civil rights figure for decades. Jackson founded the Chicago-based civil rights groups Operation PUSH and the National Rainbow Coalition.

Source: Taipei Times February 17, 2026 18:45 UTC