Veteran US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson dies aged 84

France 24 · 2026-02-17
Veteran US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson dies aged 84

Veteran US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson, one of the nation's most influential Black voices, died peacefully Tuesday morning, his family said in a statement. He was 84. Jackson, a Baptist minister, had been a civil rights leader since the 1960s, when he marched with Martin Luther King