The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Icon, Presidential Candidate & Grammy Winner, Dies at 84
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was arguably the foremost Black leader in the U.S. in the years between the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and the emergence of Sen. Barack Obama as a national political figure in 2004, died Tuesday (Feb. 17). He was 84. Jackson, who had battled the neurodegenerative […]