The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who was once a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Tuesday. He was 84. Jackson had been receiving around-the-clock care at home and was ...

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Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights activist and preacher who fought tirelessly for decades and ran for president twice, ...

Handsome and dynamic, an orator with a flair for memorable rhyme, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was the first Black candidate for ...

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Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights activist and preacher who fought tirelessly for decades, has died aged 84. A ...

I wrote a book about Jesse Jackson, and we became friends. The cynics didn’t get how he fused moral simplicity and political ...

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