US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies at 84, leaving legacy of political firstsUnited States & Canada – South China Morning Post

Source: United States & Canada – South China Morning PostCharismatic US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South ⁠who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jnr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.
“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 long-time Chicagoan,…Read More

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